Jewish identity

The battle for Jewish identity will be decided in the classroom, not on Twitter

Jewish identity has never been decided in comment sections. It is shaped in classrooms, youth movements, summer camps, and in family conversations.

Shalev Fima, Chief of Staff of the President of the World Zionist Organization
'In the Diaspora we need to continue with Jewish education.’ Tal Ben-Shahar at the Yael Awards in Vienna earlier this month.

Teaching Jewish happiness after October 7: An educator's fresh approach to Jewish pride

Survivor Agam Berger played "Hallelujah."

At Vienna’s Yael Awards, Jewish education is framed as infrastructure, not crisis response

Friends and family attend the funeral of Dan Alkayim, who was murdered in a mass terrorist shooting attack on December 14, 2025 at Bondi Beach in Sydney, at a cemetery in Ashdod, southern Israel, December 25, 2025.

'Angelic, full of joy': Ashdod mayor honors 27-year-old Dan Alkayim, killed in Bondi Beach attack


Senate and Jewish org work to give food assistance to military families

The organization, which is led by Jewish values, has done philanthropic work to assist military families regarding their lack of food.

US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) huddles on the Senate floor with Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), Senator John Hoeven (R-ND), Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Senator James Lankford (R-OK), Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and others

Jewish youth feel morality is essential to their Jewish identity

By providing youth with hands-on philanthropy experiences, we can help them mobilize their Jewish values, maximize their community impact and come together as a community to fight for change

Jewish and Arab youth playing baseball together

The fracturing of liberal Judaism over Jewish particularism - opinion

The growing inclination among liberal Jews to deemphasize Jewish distinctiveness is the gravest threat to the future of liberal Judaism.

AMERICAN RABBIS from the Reform and Conservative movements hold a group prayer near the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Far-right Noam MK denigrates democracy in maiden Knesset speech

Labor MK and Reform leader Rabbi Gilad Kariv condemned Maoz’s speech as "Israeli fascism and Jewish fundamentalism."

New Knesset member Avi Maoz seen at the Knesset , ahead of the opening Knesset session of the new government, on April 05, 2021.

American author Nicole Krauss receives prize for Jewish literature

Krauss was chosen by the Sami Rohr Prize panel of judges for her "valuable contribution to Jewish literature."

Nicole Krauss, the acclaimed author of The History of Love.

Prominent lawyer with Jewish roots under fire for identifying as Latinx

"My cultural identity was formed as a result of my family, both chosen and chosen for me, and that has always been Latinx,” Bannan said.

Cartagena, Colombia

‘Ethnicity, not religion, focus of post-Soviet Jewish identity’ – study

“We are quite confident that the process of ethnic and cultural assimilation of former Soviet Union Jews and their families is reversible.”

A large menorah in the central square of Birodjan, Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Russia

Strong Jewish identities will safeguard Israel's future

Our Common Destiny Project: Strengthening Jewish Identity

Participants carry Israeli flags at the 'Celebrate Israel'' parade along Fifth Avenue in New York City in 2017

What do I look like?

I don’t take selfies, though my children and grandchildren take photos on their phones.

The portrait of Rabbi Raymond Apple by Australian artist Robert Hannaford at the Great Synagogue, Sydney

Parashat Masei: Understanding Jews who don’t support Israel

It is tempting to dismiss these opponents merely as self-hating Jews, thinking, “What type of proud Jew could possibly be opposed to the Jewish state?”

A shepherd walks his flock in the Jordan Valley, June 2020