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The National Endowment for the Humanities has historically funded scholarship in the humanities. (Getty Images)
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Scholars tell important Jewish stories with NEH funds. What happens to them now?

Pamela S. Nadell by Pamela S. Nadell April 10, 2025April 10, 2025
These 20-sided dreidels created by David Zvi Kalman will become more expensive to import under the Trump administration's tariffs. (Courtesy Kalman)
Posted inFirst Person

I run a small Judaica business. Trump’s tariffs are going to squelch Jewish innovation.

David Zvi Kalman by David Zvi Kalman April 9, 2025April 9, 2025
Stephen Miller in 2016 (Wikimedia/Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inOpinion

Stephen Miller’s cavalier cruelty misses the whole point of Passover

Rabbi Jay Michaelson by Rabbi Jay Michaelson April 9, 2025April 9, 2025
The congregation exits a Black church in Pittsburgh in 1941. (Jack Delano/Farm Security Administration)
Posted inOpinion

Why I’m holding my Seder in a historic Black church

Tamar Manasseh by Tamar Manasseh April 8, 2025April 8, 2025
A 19th-century Ukrainian art print of a family seder
Posted inOpinion

The Passover seder is a model for healing democracies in peril

Rabbi Meesh Hammer-Kossoy by Rabbi Meesh Hammer-Kossoy April 7, 2025April 7, 2025
Hussam Ayloush speaks with a reporter (Screenshot via YouTube)
Posted inLocal Voice

CAIR-CA has a Hamas problem, and California taxpayers are funding it

by Susan George April 3, 2025April 3, 2025
This screenshot from a video provided to J. shows a brief glimpse of a protester holding a Palestinian flag (only the black, white and green parts of the flag are visible) in front of the stage at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco as the Israel Philharmonic finished playing "Hatikvah," the Israeli national anthem, March 23, 2025. (Courtesy Marilyn Uzan)
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Boycotting S.F. Symphony; A ‘very fine’ fact check; Context about ‘Rachel’ at SFJFF

by J. Readers April 2, 2025April 4, 2025
A scene from "October 8"
Posted inOpinion

Is this new documentary giving voice to American Jewish anguish — or simply stoking fear?

Nora Berman by Nora Berman March 27, 2025March 27, 2025
Rachele Kanigel carries the Torah at her bat mitzvah. (Kim Komenich)
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Wrestling with the G-word: Why a religious skeptic had an adult bat mitzvah

Rachele Kanigel by Rachele Kanigel March 24, 2025April 4, 2025
A scene from "No Other Land," which won best documentary at the 2025 Academy Awards.
Posted inLocal Voice

Attempts to censor films about Israel are nothing new — but they can be stopped

Deborah Kaufman (Photo/Courtesy) by Deborah Kaufman March 21, 2025March 21, 2025

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