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The recent normalization agreements with Arab states rely on—and contribute to—growing authoritarianism.

A conversation with scholar Devin E. Naar about what meaningful Sephardic representation might look like in the wake of near-total erasure.

The protests in Borough Park reflect a shift in Orthodox communities, long in the making, toward a Trumpian style of politics.

The religious tenor of public mourning for RBG reveals a conflation of Jewishness with American liberalism, which forecloses the possibility of reckoning with either.

How the Hasidic housing crisis led to the largest case of federal voter fraud in modern American history

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Reimagining housing as the ground shifts under our feet

On the 30th anniversary of her groundbreaking book Standing Again at Sinai, feminist theologian Judith Plaskow discusses the choice to remain within a patriarchal religious framework.

Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris, who has always toed the AIPAC line on Israel/Palestine, is part of the campaign’s pitch that polarization can be undone.

Vincent Bevins, author of The Jakarta Method, discusses the legacy of US intervention in Indonesia and Brazil.

Five socialists are headed to the New York state legislature. The story of the five socialists elected in 1919 provides a sobering warning.

An interview with the former child star about her Jewish upbringing and being a lefty millennial Jew in Hollywood.

Pressuring social media platforms to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism is the latest strategy to silence critics of Israel.

Yo La Tengo’s new drone album, released into the formlessness of quarantine, evokes the unfulfilled waiting of Jewish messianism.

Bush’s victory in a St. Louis congressional primary escalates an insurgency from the Democratic Party’s left wing.