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36 Under 36 – Where Are They Now?

36 Under 36 We caught up with six past 36ers to see what they are up to now.

By Zohar Reyhanian

Jewish Week Wins Four Jewish Journalism Awards

First-place honors in news reporting for USY abuse exposé.

By Robert Goldblum

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#MeToo In the Jewish Community: Where Are We Now?

New initiatives aim to tackle the problem, but many say efforts are still lagging — or lacking.

By Hannah Dreyfus

Vitaly Beckman Stuns In New Off-Broadway Show

Full of humor and surprise, the master illusionist and magician brings his show to NYC.

By Alan Zeitlin

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Analysis: Don’t Cry For Us, Jerusalem

A response to Naftali Bennett’s fears for the future of U.S. Jewry.

By Gary Rosenblatt

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Welcoming The Stranger Is A Core Principle Of Judaism

The Torah instructs us 36 times to care for the stranger — far more than it commands us to observe the Sabbath or any other law.

By Jewish Week Editors

Border Patrol Agents Detain Migrants Near US-Mexico Border

From Here To The Border, Trump Policy Outrages Jews

By Doug Chandler

Border Patrol Agents Detain Migrants Near US-Mexico Border

Opinion: The Jewish Community Doesn’t Ignore Human Suffering

By Gail Hyman

Base Hillel Reinvents The Fundraising Dinner Ritual

By Shira Hanau

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This 87 Year-Old Kindertransport Survivor Will Retrace His Holocaust Escape Route By Bike

The trip will cover 600 miles over six days

By Charles Dunst

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Hadassah Hit With $21M Suit

Israeli crisis management company claims it rescued the women’s organization and wasn’t fully paid.

By Stewart Ain

Singing Political Songs In A Troubled Time

Daniel Kahn’s newest album reminds the listener that the message his music tells is especially pertinent today.

By George Robinson

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Death And Rebuke For The Greatest Generation

Shabbat Chukat

By Freema Gottlieb

Is Tourism Killing The Deli?

By Ted Merwin

Israel Isn’t A Wedge Issue

Opinion

By Jonathan S. Tobin

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Indecision On African Migrants Is Damaging Their Lives

Opinion

By Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom

Tunisia v England: Group G - 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia

Soccer Fever! How The World Cup Brings People Together

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By Graciela Berger Wegsman

On The OU Honoring Jeff Sessions

Opinion

By Elli Fischer

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The New Bridge Builders: Meet This Year’s 36 Under 36

36 Under 36 Our 11th annual collection of changemakers reaching across divides and edging the Jewish community forward.

By Hannah Dreyfus

What’s Going On In NYC This Week — June 15 – 24

Your guide to upcoming Jewish-y events in New York.

By Robert Goldblum and Sandee Brawarsky

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These Dutch Holocaust Survivors Have Been Madly In Love For 70 Years

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Brooklyn Math Professor Has Sired 22 Children Through Donated Sperm

But he's sperm isn't allowed in Israeli fertility clinics.

By JTA

The Duke Of Cambridge Visits Liverpool

Prince William’s Itinerary Puts Jerusalem In ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’

By JTA

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Why Don’t More Women Wear Tsitsit?

JOFA Blog

By Noah Gradofsky

“Fauda” Returns

Fresh Ink for Teens The Israeli drama series offers a unique window into the Arab-Israeli conflict.

By Shoshana Solomon

Pro-Yeshiva Group Goes On The Offensive

Pushing back against claims of substandard secular education.

By Amy Sara Clark

US Leaves UN Human Rights Council Over Israel Bias

By Ron Kampeas

UN Security Council Holds Emergency Session On Israel-Gaza Conflict

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Jewish Culture’s Summer Address

By Hilary Danailova

Letters From Israel

Uncertainty On Charedi Draft Bill

Current bill, unlike others, has charedi support. But does Bibi have something up his sleeve?

By Nathan Jeffay

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They’re Shedding Tears For Ben’s Best

As the 73-year-old Rego Park deli gets ready to serve the last pastrami sandwich, bike lanes seen as culprit.

By Steve Lipman

Getting Personal About Depression

BLOGS “I want to shatter the myth that everyone that you see represents some model of family or perfection or wellness or wholeness that you assume only because you know nothing about them and their lives except what you see in shul, or on the street, or in social contexts…”

By Rabbi Gerald C. Skolnik

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Parker Jewish President Michael N. Rosenblut Honored By New York Board Of Rabbis

2018 Humanitarian Award is New York Board of Rabbis’ Highest Honor

By Parker Jewish Institute

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This Biracial Orthodox Rabbi Is Using His Background To Create A Unique Community In Brooklyn

By Josefin Dolstein

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Books

New Book Tells Story Of The Coffeehouse As Silk Road For Art, Politics, Ideas

A moveable feast of Jewish culture.

By Sandee Brawarsky

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Playdates For Every Child: What Our Community Can Learn From Sesame Street

The New Normal One father shares how we can all make sure that no child is left out of playdates.

By Zevi Fischer

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The Chutzpah Podcast

Episode 4: This Woman Is Fighting To Keep Women’s Pictures In Orthodox Media

By The Jewish Week Staff

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June 20, 2018
5:56 pm

Jewish Week Wins Four Jewish Journalism Awards

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The Jewish Week today won four Simon Rockower Awards, given by the American Jewish Press Association for “Excellence in Jewish Journalism,” at the annual AJPA conference in Cleveland. The paper received two first-place awards: for a news article by editor...

By Robert Goldblum

June 20, 2018
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Uncertainty On Charedi Draft Bill

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Something big is happening in Israel, but it’s hard to make out whether it’s a breakthrough in religious-secular relations, or the cooking up of a political crisis. A new bill dealing with the thorny issue of charedim and army service...

By Nathan Jeffay

June 20, 2018
2:40 pm

Welcoming The Stranger Is A Core Principle Of Judaism

In an age of terrorism and international turmoil, secure borders and orderly, lawful policies for dealing with immigrants and refugees are critical to America’s security. But it is also critical that we remain true to the ideals of a...

By Jewish Week Editors

June 20, 2018
2:16 pm

#MeToo In the Jewish Community: Where Are We Now?

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On June 5, Dov Ben-Shimon, executive vice president/CEO of Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest N.J., penned a personal email to dozens of federation leaders across the country. He outlined what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind measure to address the...

By Hannah Dreyfus

June 20, 2018
1:05 pm

Hadassah Hit With $21M Suit

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An Israeli crisis management company that claimed it rescued Hadassah: the Women’s Zionist Organization of America from financial collapse in 2014 — including the loss of ownership of its hospital in Israel — is suing the organization for $20.9...

By Stewart Ain

June 20, 2018
9:32 am

US Leaves UN Human Rights Council Over Israel Bias

UN Security Council Holds Emergency Session On Israel-Gaza Conflict

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from the U.N. Human Rights Council because of its bias against Israel. Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, jointly...

By Ron Kampeas

June 20, 2018
9:20 am

From Here To The Border, Trump Policy Outrages Jews

Border Patrol Agents Detain Migrants Near US-Mexico Border

While events at the country’s southern border are shaking much of the country, including Jews who are viscerally upset by the sounds and images of children who have been separated from their migrant parents and housed in chain-link pens,...

By Doug Chandler

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Are Nazi Comparisons Fair?

The Holocaust was so horrific and unique, that comparisons belittle the meaning of that period of world history. So it is......

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Please Don’t Burn Israel Anymore

So why does Hamas in Gaza keep sending thousands of incendiary kites and flaming balloons into Israel? On one hand, they claim......

By Andy Blumenthal

The 2,000-year-old synagogue at Gamla, the oldest yet found in Israel.

Under a burning sun, I climb a rocky basalt ridge on the Golan Heights, surrounded by deep gorges, high above the......

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Grief and responsibility: How do we carry a legacy, and transform loss into lasting impact?

How do we turn loss into positive impact? My 3rd TEDx Talk from an unexpected transformation My most recent...

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Getting personal about depression

What follows is a re-working of a sermon that I delivered in my synagogue -- Forest Hills Jewish Center -- last......

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Playdates For Every Child: What Our Community Can Learn From Sesame Street

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April, 2017 was a watershed moment for public television. Sesame Street, a show we all grew up watching, loving and learning from, introduced a new character: Julia. Like her friends, Elmo, Abby Cadabby and Big Bird, Julia is cute,...

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Would I Be The Same Father If My Son Didn’t Have Autism?

Sometimes I feel bad about having a child with autism. And then something crazy happens. This week it was something tragic. A little boy who was born the day before my son in the same hospital 10 years ago...

By Dr. Evan Stein

June 11, 2018
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Parenting And Cognitive Disabilities: Looking To My Son’s Future

This week, I turned 47. I had a really beautiful birthday—my husband and I took the day off work so that we could share the day together. After weeks of rain, the spring weather in Philadelphia where I live...

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June 8, 2018
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Slingshot Guide Recognizes Inclusion Leaders

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This week, the 2018 Slingshot Guide was released and we want to applaud the number of organizations featured in the guide that are doing innovative work to support people with disabilities and their families across the Jewish community. The...

By Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

June 5, 2018
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Time For Camp: Preparing Staff For Mental Health Issues

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Editor's Note: As staff around the country are preparing for summer camp, we're grateful to share this important perspective from Karen Legman Segal. This blog originally appeared on The Jewish Education Project site. "He says he has suicidal thoughts… this...

By Karen Legman Segal

May 30, 2018
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Sulam Recognizes Two Community Leaders

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Rockville, Maryland – Sulam will recognize two community leaders for outstanding work as advocates for inclusion at its annual gala on June 3, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. ET at The Hotel at the University of Maryland in College Park. Both...

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One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Autism Parenting And Inclusion

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Spike Lee’s Jewish Characters Have Gotten More Nuanced Since ‘Mo’ Better Blues’

In new buddy cop, ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ Lee’s depiction of the black-Jewish relationship has come a long way since earlier work.

By Ron Kampeas

June 19, 2018
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Singing Political Songs In A Troubled Time

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The way he sees it, Daniel Kahn has been playing Perchik almost all his life. Kahn will act the role of the itinerant radical organizer in the Folksbiene’s new Yiddish-language “Fiddler on the Roof,” which opens on July 4, but...

By George Robinson

June 19, 2018
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Is Tourism Killing The Deli?

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On my way to the Jewish Theological Seminary last week for the annual “Week of Study” with other synagogue executive directors, I stopped off at Ben’s Kosher Deli on West 38th Street. It was 4:30 on a Sunday afternoon...

By Ted Merwin

June 19, 2018
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Jewish Culture’s Summer Address

The Berkshires landscape appears timeless: forested hillsides and rolling pastures, dotted with red barns and mossy stone walls. But this storied region, where the mountains of Western Massachusetts meet Connecticut, is very much on the cutting edge. Like so many...

By Hilary Danailova

June 19, 2018
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New Book Tells Story Of The Coffeehouse As Silk Road For Art, Politics, Ideas

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After Shachar M. Pinsker wrote a series of articles for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz about the coffeehouses of Europe of the last century and their connection to modern Jewish culture, he received an outpouring of responses — photographs, stories...

By Sandee Brawarsky

June 13, 2018
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What’s Going On In NYC This Week — June 15 – 24

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The top events in NYC, as curated by our arts and culture editors. SPIRAL Who could forget the shock of the 2015 Hyper Casher terror attack in Paris? Ever since then, France’s 500,000 Jews have wrestled with their place in French...

By Robert Goldblum and Sandee Brawarsky

June 12, 2018
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Music, Food And Erasing Borders

‘If music be the food of love,” Duke Orsino says in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” “play on.” For one man’s unrequited love, music was the elixir. The healing powers of music — and food — in an age of growing political...

By Steve Lipman

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Exhibitions With A Jewish Aesthetic To See This Summer

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Ah, summer — the great outdoors! For some, warm weather means the cool, watery rush of rafting, the adrenaline of climbing a summit, or the verdant adventures to be had in the wilderness. Personally, I adore the climate-controlled galleries of...

By Hilary Danailova

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