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Uncomfortable truth behind being a Diaspora Jew today - opinion

A stark look at the comfort, denial, and growing danger facing Jews abroad and the hard choices history keeps demanding from Jews.

|BySTEWART WEISS
An aerial view of emergency personnel working at the scene of a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, December 14, 2025, in this screen grab from a video.
An aerial view of emergency personnel working at the scene of a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, December 14, 2025, in this screen grab from a video.

One nation, many homes: Confronting antisemitism across the world - opinion

Across the globe, Jews face fear from rising antisemitism, and only shared courage will keep the nation strong.

|ByAMITAI FRAIMAN
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are seen protesting against the North American Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism in New Orleans, in early December.

The protesters that proved antisemitism is alive and real - opinion

Mayors came to New Orleans to study antisemitism, and pro-Palestinian protesters ensured they felt its reality firsthand.

|ByLISA KATZ
Touro Synagogue, built in 1759, in Newport, Rhode Island, is the oldest synagogue building in the United States.

Mastering the short story: Twelve vignettes capture America’s Jewish world - book review

'You’ve Told Me Before,' proves, if proof were needed after her first wonderful foray into this specialized literary field, that Jennifer Anne Moses is a master of the short story genre.

|ByNEVILLE TELLER

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President Rivlin adopts ‘Declaration of Our Common Destiny’

“I call upon all of our brothers and sisters in Israel and around the world to respond to this call for unity, for dialogue, for mutual responsibility.”

DECEMBER 17, 2020ByALAN ROSENBAUM
Sivan Aloni project director, Dorit Golender, vice president for community relations, Genesis Philanthropy Group, President Rivlin, Minister of Diaspora Affairs Omer Yankelevitch, and Dvir Kahana, Director General of the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs

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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, a ‘prince of God’

Rabbi Sacks was a prince of God, a prince of dignity, a prince of kindness, a prince of eloquence, a prince of wisdom.

NOVEMBER 14, 2020ByRABBI WARREN GOLDSTEIN
Pope Benedict XVI receives a gift by Lord Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, during a private audience at the Vatican in 2011.