Earlier this week, Rabbi Barry Schwartz wrote about needing more Jewish debate. His blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish ...

This Passover, as for thousands of years, Jews gathered around seder tables will recall the story of our ancestors’ enslavement in Egypt. The purpose of remembering, however, is a little unclear, and, ...

Rabbi Barry Schwartz is director of The Jewish Publication Society in Philadelphia and rabbi of Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia, N.J. He is the author of “Judaism’s Great Debates” (Behrman House, ...

On one hand, the argument of Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched and unsparingly honest “Fear No Pharaoh” — that the 150,000 Jews in America at the time of the Civil War had a range of views and ...

In his new book, Beyond Dispute: Rediscovering the Jewish Art of Constructive Disagreement, Daniel Taub – Israeli peace negotiator and former ambassador to the United Kingdom – draws from Jewish ...

There is a choice before American Jews as we imagine our possible futures. Some argue that Judaism and Zionism are inseparable, and that questioning this premise constitutes antisemitism. Others ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 1 in 5 people in Spain and Portugal today may indeed be of “converso” origin: descendants of Jews or Muslims who converted ...

Mamdani’s response came after after hundreds of rabbis came out warning that the Democratic nominee winning the Nov. 4 race would put Jews in the city in danger. “Not everything is a TikTok video. You ...

Israeli MPs are to return from summer recess next week to discuss mounting criticism of a new law proclaiming the country the nation state of the Jewish people, parliament said Tuesday. President ...

The Jewish Brigade has become a screen onto which other conflicts are projected: Zionism and anti-Zionism, antisemitism, Israel and Palestine, the meaning of antifascism, and more.