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The Enduring Lessons of the Jewish Bund
2+ hour, 39+ min ago (1714+ words) A conversation with Molly Crabapple about Here Where We Live Is Our Country, her capacious history of Bundism and what we can learn from their socialist and anti-Zionist example. The Bund's revolutionaries, poets, and militants fought and died not just…...
What Made This Seder Different From Any Other Seder?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (664+ words) Answer: The presence of New York's first Muslim mayor. Zohran Mamdani on March 31, 2026. But that was over 30 years ago, and although our family eventually developed its own set of rituals for the holiday'Sephardi lamb instead of Ashkenazi brisket, abridged versions…...
The Long Shadow of the "Jewish Question
2+ mon, 2+ hour ago (753+ words) After the Holocaust, Israel was hailed as the solution to an essentially antisemitic debate. Now, as another genocide unfolds'in Gaza'Jews are once again questioning the question. Palestinians, of course, have understood these ideas for decades. What feels like a discovery…...
On Cora Weiss (1934-2025) and Peace
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (526+ words) Cora Weiss died in December at age 91. She never stopped campaigning to save the world from nuclear destruction. Between 1958 and 1970, researchers in St. Louis collected 320, 000 baby teeth. Unusual though that image might be on its own, the discovery that came…...
How Trump Is Using Claims of Antisemitism to End Free Speech
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (663+ words) Trump's urge to suppress free speech may be about Israel today, but count on one thing: It will be about something else tomorrow. President Donald Trump speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters on September…...
This Winter, Give the Gift of Hope
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (320+ words) The state of the world has been looking dark. Helping our fellow human beings is one way to add some light. Even if all these wonderful things happen, the world will still need your help. So, Nation readers of the…...
From the Gaza Flotilla: "I'm Here Because My Jewish Heritage Demands It
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (863+ words) I hope that fellow Jews will join me in redefining their approach to atonement and move toward courageous action to put an end to this horrific genocide. The ship Omar Mukhtar departs from Tripoli Port in the Libyan capital en…...
A Statement From US Jews Opposing Trump's Attacks on Colleges and Students
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (1063+ words) Donald Trump is introduced at the Republican Jewish Coalition's Annual Leadership Summit at the Venetian Resort Las Vegas on October 28, 2023. We, the undersigned, stand in opposition to the Trump administration's targeting of college students and professors whose only "crimes" are…...
This Group's Definition of Antisemitism Is Providing Cover For Genocide
8+ mon, 3+ day ago (867+ words) The definition hardly refers to inequality or structural discrimination'rather, it's a thinly veiled tool for prohibiting criticism of any sort about Israel. A Palestinian schoolgirl walks past the remains of a house, destroyed during 2014 war in northern Gaza, February 10, 2016. In…...
Challenging the Silence Over Palestine in the American Historical Association
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (122+ words) Van Gosse is a professor of history emeritus at Franklin and Marshall College and cochair of Historians for Peace and Democracy. These are the largest since the Russian invasion of 2022and seem poised to continue. Eighty years after the first atomic…...