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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.

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

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

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


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Examining the relationship between Israel and Diaspora Jewry - opinion

Left and Right, religious and secular, we have become too pedantic toward Diaspora Jewry. We have not paid sufficient attention to almost half of our people who do not live in the Jewish state.

American and Israeli Jews [Illustrative]

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What defines Jewish music?

From Shlomo Carlebach to Debbie Friedman to Yiddish tunes, there is a vast history to explore.

ARED STEIN blows a shofar as Rabbi Naomi Levy plays a drum at the Nashuva Spiritual Community Jewish New Year celebration in LA, 2015

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Why it's time to face the grim facts on rising antisemitism in the US

Though Jews barely account for 2% of the US population, they are the target of 6 out of 10 of all religiously motivated hate-crimes.

TOPPLED JEWISH headstones – 170 in total – vandalized in Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, back in 2017

A Danish boat to freedom - The boat that saved 11 Jews in Denmark

New exhibit marks escape of Danish Jews from the Nazis.

ABRAHAM STEINBOCK and his wife, Molly, visit the boat that in 1943 took him to safety, at a fishing museum in Jutland, Denmark, in 2000

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