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Sue Barnett in Tel Aviv in January of 1991, shortly after the start of the Gulf War. Her shirt has a caricature of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and reads "I survived Jan. 15 in Israel."
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I’m retiring after 22 years as a J. editor, and I’m ready to tell the story

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett April 30, 2026April 30, 2026
Israeli Consul General Marco Sermoneta at a ceremony for Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s memorial day, at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inLetters

Farewell to Sue. Jewish ethnicity. Yom HaZikaron interrupters.

by J. Readers April 29, 2026April 29, 2026
Twitch streamer Hasan Piker interviews Zohran Mamdani during his New York City mayoral campaign, April 7, 2025. (Screenshot via YouTube)
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American Jews have a Hasan Piker problem. Solving it is going to hurt

Emily Tamkin by Emily Tamkin April 29, 2026April 29, 2026
Rabbi Zac Kamenetz, founder of the Jewish psychedelic organization Shefa, prays in the Giant Sequoia Grove in Berkeley, Aug. 6, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inLocal Voice

Psychedelics: A new approach to healing Jewish trauma is on the horizon

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz by Rabbi Zac Kamenetz April 27, 2026April 27, 2026
A memorial stands near the entombed reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. (Trey Ratcliff CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr)
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Decades after Chernobyl, Russia’s arrogance toward Ukraine persists

Danny Grossman by Danny Grossman April 24, 2026April 24, 2026
A man drinks from a segregated water fountain in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1950. (Elliott Erwitt/National Museum of American History via Wikimedia/CC0 1.0)
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‘Stick to your own kind’? Sometimes, it’s not about race

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent April 24, 2026April 24, 2026
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Congress thinks my college is failing on antisemitism. My students disagree.

Joel Swanson by Joel Swanson April 21, 2026April 21, 2026
Temple Beth-El in Great Neck, N.Y. (Courtesy of Temple Beth-El)
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A pioneering Reform synagogue makes way for a booming Iranian Jewish community

Lauren Hakimi by Lauren Hakimi April 20, 2026April 20, 2026
People celebrate during a rally over the killing of former Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khameini at Harry Bridges Plaza in San Francisco, March 1, 2026. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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Epstein and Iran are an antisemitism mega-crisis. Here’s what Jewish organizations should do about it. 

Rabbi Jay Michaelson by Rabbi Jay Michaelson April 17, 2026April 17, 2026
A Jewish couple ride in a rickshaw in Shanghai in the late 1930s or early 1940s. (Courtesy Sino-Judaic Institute)
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Kaifeng article is a nice change. Jewish isn’t an ethnicity. Kudos to folk dancer.

by J. Readers April 16, 2026April 16, 2026

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