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Who Are the Jews On Joe Biden’s Cabinet?
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No Labels: The Group Fighting for the Political Center
Larry Greenfield
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Print Issue: Raising a Child the World Already Hates | July 18, 2025
Jewish Journal Staff




Essays Recounting Struggles, Written with Honesty and Wisdom
Rabbi Jack Riemer

Jews of Color Initiative Awards New Grants to Ten Organizations, Including The Braid
July 17, 2025
The Braid will produce recipe videos and a filmed Shabbat conversation, accompanied by a nationally distributed Shabbat dinner discussion guide.

Rejected for a Credit Card, He Built a Company That Approved Millions
July 17, 2025
Arad Levertov had a bold idea: making everyday essentials more affordable through responsible lending.

Rabbi Amital’s Legacy and Today’s Arguments
July 17, 2025
Taragin’s volume is not a conventional academic history of his mentor. Rather, it offers a compendium of warm and wise anecdotes and lessons he learned studying under Amital.

VBS Carries on Legacy Hebrew Program for Adult Learners
July 17, 2025
The Community Hebrew Program at VBS, according to VBS, “will continue AJU’s legacy of enriching Jewish life through accessible Hebrew study resources.”

The Heart of Cooking Healthy Green Rissoles
July 17, 2025
No matter where you’re born or how you were raised, one thing is certain — the more vegetables you place on the table, the more your family will learn to love them and expect them.


Raising a Child the World Already Hates
July 17, 2025
The Jewish trauma we thought was buried has come roaring back, four generations after the Holocaust.

Holocaust Annulment
July 17, 2025
The genocide of the Jews is turned morally inside out. The victims are transformed into the villains — making it not only appropriate, but righteous, to have another go at ridding the world of them.

Rosner’s Domain | A Clear Majority. But for What?
July 17, 2025
The Israeli public may be ready for a deal. But like most things in Israel, support comes with conditions and caveats.

Sharia Socialism
July 17, 2025
The West is at an inflection point. Will it continue to submit, as Douglas Murray has put it, to a form of fascism that pretends to be a religion? Or will Zohran become the bridge too far — the Islamic zealot who forces the U.S. to finally say: Enough.

Autopsy of the American Dream
July 17, 2025
Resurrecting the middle class represents the nation’s foremost challenge, and accomplishing this objective requires a concerted commitment and decisive action.

The Betrayal (Entering the Mindset of Gazan Workers in the Weeks Before Oct. 7)
July 16, 2025
The Palestinians will never be free by killing Jews. They will only be free when they free themselves from their eliminationist mindset.

What Is Education?
July 16, 2025
Talk to any person in extreme old age who is thriving, and you find someone who is endlessly curious.

It’s Time to Talk About Tucker Carlson
July 16, 2025
The Carlson I see now is unrecognizable—a man who cloaks ignorance in faux patriotism and traffics in rhetoric that is unmistakably antisemitic.

Is It Time to Write the Obituary for Israel Studies?
July 16, 2025
It may be time to move Israel Studies to a hospitable home off-campus to offer a new generation a rigorous and nuanced curriculum that may be lacking at college today.

Empathicide: The Corruption of Empathy — What the Rise of Antisemitism Reveals About the Collapse of Moral Clarity
July 16, 2025
Over the past year-and-a-half, I’ve witnessed something deeply disturbing: empathy itself being used as a weapon instead of a bridge. I call this phenomenon “empathicide.”

Leave the Short Pants Alone
July 16, 2025
The key to telling a funny story and getting laughs is when you tell the story and tell it like you’re trying to talk a cop out of your third speeding ticket in a month.

An Education Dilemma
July 16, 2025
Parents who may have once been content to continue their children’s secular learning may now be more tempted to enroll them in a Jewish day school for both educational and cultural reasons – and possibly their emotional and physical safety.

Living Jewish: Asheville’s Mayor Esther Manheimer
July 16, 2025
As Asheville moves from recovery to renewal, Manheimer’s leadership now extends statewide.

You Don’t Give, You Don’t Win
July 16, 2025
One of the great truths of life is that we can’t “win” the game of life until we give up some of that life for the happiness of others.