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A DAY TO REMEMBER: To mark today's International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021, Yad Vashem will once again launch the iRemember Wall. Each participant who joins the event will be randomly linked to one of the individuals recorded in Yad Vashem's Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names.

Daily Update

BDS charges fly in City Council race • Jamal Bowman raps Israel on vaccines • This Jew really loves trees

By Jewish Week staff

From left, a World War I-era poster in Yiddish; a poster advertising a theatrical performance by Herz Grossbard, 1935; a contemporary t-shirt. (United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division; New York Public Library)

Q & A

Yiddish Lives — and Jeffrey Shandler Writes Its Biography

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

A new study depicts the life, near death and inspiring revival of the language of Ashkenazi Jews.

PLAYING WITH FIRE: Police clash with charedi Orthodox Jews during a protest against the police enforcement of lockdown orders due to the coronavirus, in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak, Jan. 24, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Daily Update

Amar’e Stoudemire won’t work on Shabbat • Another setback for Sheldon Silver • Everything Bagel ice cream is a thing

By Jewish Week staff

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Opinion
Jews in New York Reflect on an Historic Inauguration Day

By Special to The Jewish Week
Opinion
The Enemies of Democracy Are Playing the Long Game

By David Elcott
Parshat Vaera Room to Breathe: Seeking Agency in Narrow Places

By Adina Roth
Opinion
I Came to America to Escape the Anarchy You Saw at the Capitol

By Mira Rivera
Wondrous Women of the Exodus

By Daphne Lazar Price
Opinion
Never Have I Prayed as Deeply for the Government of the United States

By Menachem Creditor
Parshat Vayechi Death, Closure, and Hope

By Rivka Wietchner
Opinion
Can We Save the Unity of the Jewish People?

By Irving ‘Yitz’ Greenberg
Parshat Vayigash Show Up, Speak Up, Stand Up

By Adina Fredman
Opinion
What a NY Rabbi Learned from Contracting Covid

By Rachel Ain
Opinion
Why Are Synagogues Exempt from Accommodating Disability?

By Dov Linzer
Parshat Vayeshev Deceptions and Higher Callings

By Tamar Green Eisenstat
Opinion
A Biden Appointee Who Carries the Jewish Story Itself

By Mark Hetfield
Parshat Vayishlach: Remembering Rebecca

By Dr. Sarit Kattan Gribetz
Opinion
The Supreme Court Did Not Give Synagogues a Green Light to Flout Covid Rules

By Michael A. Helfand
Opinion
A Supreme Court Ruling Won’t Change My Orthodox Synagogue’s Commitment to the Greater Good

By Yosie Levine
Opinion
NY’s Covid Rules Aren’t Holding Back Jewish Women. The Pandemic Is.

By Lorelei Laird
Opinion
We Need Thanksgiving More Than Ever This Year

By Daniel Treiman
Opinion
How Jewish Conservatives Can Adjust to the Biden Era

By Joshua Hammer
Opinion
The Ethical Cost of Orthodox Support for Donald Trump

By Yosef Blau

Full CoverageJOFA Blog

Reflections on Parshat Bo

By Erin Leib Smokler
JOFA Blog
Tu BiShvat, Inauguration, and the Winter Trees

By Lisi Levisohn
JOFA Blog
A Tribute to Rabbi Kelemer

By Ann D. Koffsky
Parshat Vaera Room to Breathe: Seeking Agency in Narrow Places

By Adina Roth
JOFA Blog
A PrayerFull Moment

By Rabbanit Leah Sarna
JOFA Blog
Tzfat Women’s Collective Megillah Scribes

By Chaya Ben Baruch, Susan Zehavi, Allison Ofanansky and Sheva Chaya Shaiman
Parshat Shemot Counting Stars

By Yael Smooha
Wondrous Women of the Exodus

By Daphne Lazar Price
Parshat Vayechi Death, Closure, and Hope

By Rivka Wietchner
JOFA Blog
The Many Blessings of Parshat VaYechi

By Dani Kogan
Parshat Vayigash Show Up, Speak Up, Stand Up

By Adina Fredman
JOFA Blog
Parshat Miketz – Resilient We Remain

By Nomi Kaltmann
JOFA Blog
Confronting the Darker Side of Hanukkah

By Ginna Green
Parshat Vayeshev Deceptions and Higher Callings

By Tamar Green Eisenstat
JOFA Blog
My Body For Myself

By Hannah Wenger Tam
JOFA Blog
Let’s End Discrimination Against Orthodox Jewish Girls and Women in France

By Tali Fitoussi
Parshat Vayishlach: Remembering Rebecca

By Dr. Sarit Kattan Gribetz
JOFA Blog
Parshat Vayetze There’s No Place Like Home

By Miriam Lorie
JOFA Blog
Parshat Toldot: Enough Blessings for Each of Us

By Emily Goldberg Winer
JOFA Blog
Parshat Chayei Sarah: When Will My Life Begin?

By Myriam Ackermann-Sommer