“This book will make people check themselves:” Jonathan Freedland on Escaping Auschwitz

By Raquel G. Frohlich November 21, 2022

The author of “The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World,” on Rudolph Vrba’s story, modern genocide, and the unfair expectations placed on survivors of great trauma.

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The Dark Side of the URJ’s Male Charisma Economy

By Adam Zemel January 14, 2022

Reform Judaism’s movement-wide gender culture underlies the Morgan Lewis report.

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A Closer Look at WashJew

By Micah Sandman June 7, 2021

A conspicuous Jewish presence at an elite university has some side effects

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Envisioning Jewish Safety Beyond the Nation State

By Drew Perkoski June 1, 2021

On escaping antisemitic violence through community building, not nation building.

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Second Generation Survivors

By Tara Silberg March 10, 2021

Are the kids alright? How the parenting styles of Holocaust survivors transmitted trauma to the next generation and beyond.

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What Bari Weiss Gets Wrong About Anti-Semitism

By Sid Feinberg November 19, 2019

We cannot defeat anti-Semitism in isolation. In fact, it is the same ideology that puts all of us – Jews, Muslims, Palestinians, and people of color – at risk of violence.

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And The Sages Said Let Him Die

By Nesha Ruther May 15, 2019

the day i bit my fingers a biblical red i found an excerpt from the Talmud; a man becomes deathly ill with love for a woman i can count the number of men my body trusts on one hand the doctors say; he will have no cure until she engages in sexual intercourse with him…

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“This Is What I Was Scared Of”: First Thoughts After a Massacre

By Sarah Asch October 29, 2018

When I saw the news I tried to think if I know anyone who lives in Pittsburgh. If any of my Jewish friends have family there. If any of the first years we’ve welcomed to Hillel over the last few months grew up there. I couldn’t think. I called my friend and cried on the…

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