Being Jewish

Being Jewish
Chasing a Jewish Genealogical Mystery
Genealogical research pieces together a teen’s fate from pogrom-era Europe to the shadows of Argentina’s sex trade.

Genealogical research pieces together a teen’s fate from pogrom-era Europe to the shadows of Argentina’s sex trade.
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Ramping up—and Rethinking— Israel Education
Jewish day schools in the United States tackle the impact of October 7 in the classroom.

Jewish day schools in the United States tackle the impact of October 7 in the classroom.
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‘Let There Be Light’ Feels More Urgent Than Ever
‘I can’t think of a declaration more intrepid or poignant for the first painful anniversary of October 7,’ writes Abigail Pogrebin.

‘I can’t think of a declaration more intrepid or poignant for the first painful anniversary of October 7,’ writes Abigail Pogrebin.
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Time for a Reassessment Among Jewish Americans
“If antisemitism is a fact, then what can we do about it?,” Rabbi Diana Fresko writes. “Historically, there are three options: Stay and fight, leave and rebuild, or do nothing.”

“If antisemitism is a fact, then what can we do about it?,” Rabbi Diana Fresko writes. “Historically, there are three options: Stay and fight, leave
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Israel’s Other Secret Weapon
Israel’s secret weapon, Golda Meir once said, is that “we have no place else to go.” But there’s another tool in our arsenal: community.

Israel’s secret weapon, Golda Meir once said, is that “we have no place else to go.” But there’s another tool in our arsenal: community.
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Jewish Girls Make the Grade
Girls are reaching new levels of academic success, in the process surpassing boys in earning undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Girls are reaching new levels of academic success, in the process surpassing boys in earning undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Shavuot, which celebrates the time we stood at Sinai, is associated first and foremost with hearing the Ten Commandments. But the Midrash brings a much

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Commentary: Friends & Enemies

by Samuel G. Freedman

“It is the obligation of each person,” the Talmud tells us of Purim, “to be so drunk as not to be able to tell the

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Family Matters: Pure and Prosaic

by Miriam Karp

I took a deep breath and joined the three women in the refrigerated room. Within lay two meisim, newly deceased and covered with long sheets.

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Commentary: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

by Sherri Mandell

In the 1980s, in my late twenties, I was studying in a yeshiva for young women who had no religious education. Newly arrived in Israel,

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Holidays

The Missing Heroine of Hanukka

by Judy Petsonk

This Hanukka, for the sake of our daughters, let’s tell the missing piece of the Maccabee story. Let’s celebrate the Queen of the Jews, who

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Family Matters: The Art of Being Jewish

by Rahel Musleah

From the age of 4 through high school, Kayleigh Renard attended St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Memphis, Tennessee. A passionate trumpet player, she blew breath

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Commentary: The Temple’s Columns

by Randy Cohen

For the 12 years I wrote “The Ethicist” column for The New York Times Magazine, responding to readers’ moral dilemmas, I took a resolutely secular approach

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Hadassah

Commentary: One Day, One Hospital, One Nation

by Daniel Gordis

When I was little, my mother told me that she would always remember where she was when she heard that President Franklin Roosevelt had died.

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