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What Ever Happened to the LA Times?
Dan Schnur

Who Are the Jews On Joe Biden’s Cabinet?
Ryan Torok


No Labels: The Group Fighting for the Political Center
Larry Greenfield
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Hanging Out at the Jewish American Summit
Brian Fishbach


A Festive French Roast
Sharon Gomperts and Rachel Emquies Sheff

Table for Five: Nitzavim-Vayelech
Salvador Litvak

The Genius of the Marx Brothers
September 3, 2026
Like the greatest satirists, such as Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, they chose comedy over accusation to mock the folly of society and add levity to dark times. But their aim was not levity alone.

AKLA Rises
September 3, 2026
From a Local Experiment to a National Program: AKLA Expands Its Vision for Jewish Teens

Rosner’s Domain | What Do You ‘Know’ About Altalena?
September 3, 2026
The Altalena was a munitions ship fired upon and sunk by the newly formed Israel Defense Forces in 1948.


Better Kisser Than a Cook
September 2, 2026
Sometimes love arrives ahead of you, in spite of you. Cooking slowly became a way of being there for the people I love. A wordless language that says: I see you. I hear you. You’re worth the onion-chopping.

Israel’s Brain-Drain Debate Is Asking the Wrong Question
September 2, 2026
If an experienced professional with rare expertise leaves Israel, the impact cannot be understood simply by adding another person to a brain-drain statistic. The more relevant question is how many people with comparable experience remain, how essential that expertise is and how easily it can be rebuilt.

Conspiracy Theories Have Never Been Good for the Jews; They Won’t Be Good for Israel
September 2, 2026
Conspiracy theories and antisemitism do have an affinity and important features in common, including the tendency to frame accusations in such a way that refutation does not affect the accuser. Having suffered from this for centuries, do we really want it in our public life?

I Am an American, a Jew, and a Progressive Democrat. Can I Still Be All Three?
September 2, 2026
Any Democrat seeking to lead the party in 2028 should embrace the politics of addition by subtraction and reject any movement seeking to end all aid to Israel and replace America’s constitutional order.

Apprenticeship in Mystery: Working the Infinite into the Ordinary
September 2, 2026
We live in an age with zero patience for uncertainty. We have answers for everything, almost magically. And somehow, we still seem to know nothing about what it means to be here.

Deuteronomy’s Directions for America
September 2, 2026
Moses’ speech was addressed to people standing on the threshold of a new chapter. The American story is similarly turning a new page.

A New Borscht Belt?
September 2, 2026
If renewed exclusion teaches us only to become more protective of Jewish work, we will have learned the wrong lesson from the original Borscht Belt.

Judaism as a Covenant for the Ages
September 2, 2026
Given the realities of our current time, we are more in need than ever of the depth, wisdom, and joy that Jewish tradition offers.

A Summit to Remember
September 2, 2026
Our shared stories of hatred, humiliation, oppression and slavery obligate us to show up for one another.

Old-Guard Dems Pushing Back
September 2, 2026
While it’s indisputable that younger and progressive voters are driving the party away from its historic support for Israel, the old-guard Zionist Democrats have made it clear that they will not surrender without a fight.


Why I Write
September 2, 2026
The column went from being about a neighborhood to being all over the map. Now, I can’t attend any event, watch any movie, read any essay, discover any story, hear any conversation, see any news item without thinking, “this might be a column.”

Assassinating Reinhard Heydrich Was the Bravest Act of World War II
September 2, 2026
Operation Anthropoid, the destruction of Lidice, and why Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík belong among the greatest heroes of the Second World War

Tovah Feldshuh on Israel’s Critics, Her Career and ‘Tovah,’ a New Documentary
September 1, 2026
Feldshuh said the documentary has provided an opportunity to look back on a career she has never been particularly interested in viewing as finished.

Does Jewish Existence Conflict with Human Survival?
August 31, 2026
Unlike Dana Nessel, most Jews still consider the existence of the Jewish people, and the Jewish state, to be a Jewish value. They’re proud to be Jews—and they’re equally proud of the role Jews have played in human history.

Michigan Rabbi Says El-Sayed’s Apology is a Non-Apology
August 31, 2026
Michigan Rabbi Asher Lopatin recently spoke about how while he usually voted for Democrats, he will not be voting for Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

