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November 16, 2023
First Jewish Member of Congress Joins Calls for Cease-Fire in Gaza
Becca Balint joins more than 30 other members of Congress calling for a cease-fire amid Israel’s war on Gaza.
November 6, 2023
George Santos Offers Deranged New Explanation on “Jew-ish” Heritage
The New York representative known for his serial lies is offering up a new unbelievable one.
October 18, 2023
“Not in Our Name”: Jewish Activists Take Over Capitol to Demand Ceasefire in Gaza
The massive Jewish-led protest was met with mass arrests.
September 25, 2023
Marjorie Taylor Greene Brutally Mocked After Yom Kippur Tweet Gaffe
The far-right representative with a history of antisemitism tried to pretend she knew something about the Jewish holiday.
September 18, 2023
Trump Wishes Jews Happy New Year by Declaring Most of Them Want to “Destroy America”
Donald Trump isn’t even trying to hide the antisemitism in his Rosh Hashanah message.
July 17, 2023
McCarthy Brazenly Defends RFK Jr. After Racist Covid Conspiracy Theory
The House speaker blasted Democrats for criticizing Israel, and then excused RFK Jr.’s antisemitism.
July 17, 2023
White Supremacist Nick Fuentes Calls for “Holy War” Against Jews
The far-right influencer, who once sat down for dinner with Donald Trump, made the comments at an “America First” rally.
February 10, 2023
MAGA Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Claimed Jewish Heritage. Her Family Says That’s Not True.
A new report says the congresswoman doesn’t have Jewish roots and her grandfather served in the Nazi army. She also appears to have embellished other parts of her biography.
April 6, 2020
Magazine
Karl Marx’s Prophetic Longing
Can we salvage an egalitarian vision from the ruins of Labor Zionism?
March 19, 2020
Magazine
Civic Republicanism: Good for the Jews
The ancient roots of communal liberty
February 18, 2020
Criticizing Michael Bloomberg in an Age of Anti-Semitism
The rich, Jewish, former mayor of New York is spending millions on this election. Can we criticize him without perpetuating harmful stereotypes?
February 13, 2020
To Dream of a Jewish President
What would it mean for Bernie Sanders, America’s most famous Jewish politician, to become its commander in chief?
May 9, 2019
Arguing in Bad Faith
The curious appropriation of “Judeo-Christian” values on the right
September 6, 2018
Magazine
Israel’s Season of Discontent
Seventy years after its founding, has the Jewish State abandoned the American diaspora?
April 30, 2018
Circle of Trust
"Disobedience" is an intimate, subtle examination of a tight-knit community, told through a lesbian love affair.
April 12, 2018
Bhagwan’s Jewish Problem
The real aim of Rajneesh’s anti-Semitism may be mind control.
August 28, 2017
How Do You Make a Movie in a Language You Don’t Speak?
Filmmaker Joshua Z. Weinstein overcame social, cultural, and linguistic barriers to make his heartbreaking new film, "Menashe," about the Hasidic community.
April 26, 2017
A Crime Novelist Investigates Cuba’s Polyphonic Past
The new novel by Leonardo Padura is a multigenerational epic of baseball, religion, and a mysterious Rembrandt painting.
November 23, 2016
A Trump Thanksgiving
Who gets to be an American? This holiday weekend my mixed-up, Trump-voting family will try to answer that question.
September 1, 2016
A Promised Land in the U.S.S.R.
Masha Gessen's book about a failed Soviet experiment asks searching questions about Jewish identity.

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