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How Mosaics Got Their Name, and How “Mosaic” Got Its
By PhilologosMoses, the muses, and an early-1960s Jewish magazine at Harvard.
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Jewish World
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What American Jews Gave After October 7: An Accounting
By Jack WertheimerIn response to crises in Israel and at home, American Jews mobilized to raise vast sums. But why was the community so unprepared? And did it rise to the occasion?
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Why Can’t the Jews Teach Their Children How to Speak Hebrew?
By Cole S. AronsonAmerican Jewry has spent over $100 million in Hebrew education. The results are far from impressive.
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Haketiya, the Spanish Yiddish
By PhilologosLike Ladino, Haketiya grew out of the Spanish of Jews exiled from Spain. Like Yiddish, it has a range of loving, spiteful, sarcastic, ironic, anxious, and superstitious expressions.
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Watch Douglas Murray, Samuel Goldman, and Tamara Berens on Anti-Semitism and the Battle for the American Right
By The EditorsCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Is a Christian Delicacy Behind the Shlissel Challah Phenomenon?
By PhilologosOrthodox Jews on Instagram have become obsessed with baking key-shaped challah. Is the idea derived from a decidedly non-Orthodox source?
Monthly Essay ·
Why Is Europe Repressing Ritual Slaughter?
By Eric MechoulanCountries across Europe are cracking down on ritual slaughter, making the position of observant Jews and Muslims there more tenuous. Is concern for animals really the motivating factor?
Observation ·
In Israel and America, Haredi Jews Are Starting To Vote Like Everyone Else
By Eli SpitzerUltra-Orthodox Jews no longer vote in blocs and are now enthusiastic participants in national ideological movements. They may rue the change.
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How to Solve the Haredi Education Controversy
By Eli SpitzerIf outsiders listen to leaders of the community rather than reformers on the margins, they'll be more likely to come to agreement. Just look to Israel, where a new precedent was set.
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Watch Our Discussion on Jewish Florida with Tamara Berens, Paul Kruss, and Ariel Yeshurun
By The EditorsCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
The Specter of Satmar
By Eli SpitzerHow did a small Transylvanian movement become the most powerful player in worldwide ultra-Orthodoxy?
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Is a Jewish Language Really Still Spoken by Non-Jews in Bavaria?
By PhilologosOnly in Schopfloch, as far as I know, have a large number of originally Jewish words survived in the speech of the local populace to this day.
Monthly Essay ·
Jerusalem on the Atlantic
By Tamara BerensJews are pouring into south Florida by the thousands, remaking themselves and the area into one of the best places in the world for Jews to live. What’s driving this astonishing renaissance?
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Watch Our Conversation on the Rising Power of Haredi Judaism
By Eli Spitzer, Yehoshua PfefferCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Monthly Essay ·
The Haredi Moment Has Arrived
By Eli SpitzerThe balance of power in the Jewish world is shifting to the ultra-Orthodox. Can conflict with the current establishment be avoided?
Observation ·
Brazil’s Bizarre Love of Comparing Things to the Holocaust
By Igor SabinoFrequent and outrageous use of Holocaust imagery is now part-and-parcel of Brazilian political dialogue. How did this happen, and why?
Observation ·
What Jonathan Sacks Gave
By Robert P. George, Rabbi Meir SoloveichikTwo friends, a leading Catholic thinker and a leading American rabbi, pay tribute to the late chief rabbi, and his legacy both here and in Europe.
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The Crisis of Israeli Religious Identity
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What the Mizrahim Lost, and What Fairness Demands Be Done About It
By Emily BenedekThe majority of Israeli Jews, Lyn Julius points out in her book Uprooted , are not new to the Middle East—they were moved from one part of it to another.
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“A Lot of People Want Malmö to Fail, Just as They Want Salahuddin and Me to Hate Each Other”
By Annika Hernroth-RothsteinA visit with an imam and a rabbi who together are attempting the impossible in Sweden's most notoriously anti-Semitic city.
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What New Jews (and Those Curious about Judaism) Can Do for Existing Jews
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How Lenient Should Standards for Conversion to Judaism Be?
By Shlomo BrodyCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Jews Wanting to Draw Others Closer to Judaism Should Ask Themselves Why
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The Restoration of the Jewish People
By Ofir HaivryUnprecedented numbers of individuals with some historical connection to the Jewish people are seeking closer contact with it, and many are aspiring to join it.
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The AMIA Saga Is Not Some Long-Ago and Safely Buried Horror
By Avi WeissCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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In the AMIA Case There Was an Unconscionable Miscarriage of Justice, But No Cover-Up
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In Argentina, France, and Elsewhere in Europe, Attacks on Jews Are Judged by a Separate Yardstick
By Ben CohenCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The Men Responsible for the AMIA Bombing Are Known—and Still at Large
By Matthew LevittCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The Mind-Boggling Story of Shlomo and Yemimah Gangte
By Hillel HalkinHow a young man from a village in northeast India, convinced of his hidden Jewish roots, moved his family to Israel, became an Orthodox rabbi, and turned into a national hero.
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How to Say You’re Welcome in Yiddish and Other Languages
By PhilologosAnd why we say it at all.
