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Lishai Peel in the Alappuzha District in southern India. (Photo/Courtesy Peel)
Posted inOpinion

My mother downplayed her Indian Jewish heritage to fit in. As an adult, I’m learning to reclaim it.

Lishai Peel by Lishai Peel and JTA September 2, 2020September 2, 2020
A supporters holds a sign that says "Trump" in Hebrew and English as Donald Trump speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, April 6, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Saul Loeb-AFP)
Posted inUncategorized

Many Orthodox Jews support President Trump. I’m one of them.

Binyamin Rose by Binyamin Rose and JTA September 1, 2020
Russian-style Easter eggs. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inOpinion

My journey from skeptical Soviet Jew to member of the tribe

Luda Shuster by Luda Shuster August 31, 2020August 31, 2020
Two children walk through rubble near a beach in the Gaza Strip in 2017. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inOpinion

Violence begets despair begets violence in Gaza’s endless, hopeless loop

by Muhammad Shehada August 25, 2020August 31, 2020
illustration of a book that says "diaspora studies" along the spine
Posted inOpinion

Why was the Diaspora missing from my Hebrew school education?

by Samantha Tener August 12, 2020August 12, 2020
Lin-Manuel Miranda in "Hamilton" (Screenshot/Disney-YouTube)
Posted inOpinion

Watching ‘Hamilton’ as an Israeli in America

Tomer Persico by Tomer Persico July 16, 2020July 16, 2020
a small green plant bud pokes out of a small crack in asphalt
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

We’ve got what it takes to endure these difficult days

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz July 15, 2020July 20, 2020
A laptop with Zoom open on it next to a lit yahrzeit candle
Posted inOpinion

The agony of the Covid-19 obituarist

by Sam Sokol July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
landscape photo of a dusky sunset over a lake
Posted inColumns

Will there ever be another family summer like this one?

by Julie Levine July 9, 2020
A woman walks with her child in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Efrat, April 26, 2020. (Photo/JTA-David Vaaknin for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

I’m an Israeli settler. American Jews are debating my future, but here’s what they don’t understand.

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski by Rabbi Uri Pilichowski July 6, 2020July 6, 2020

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