Earlier this week, Joanna Hershon wrote about a memorial service she attended for a friend’s father. Her new novel, “A Dual Inheritance,” was published earlier this month by Ballantine Books. Her blog ...
Israel is cast one way, Jews another, and conflict is reduced to familiar binaries that flatten complexity into something ...
In a time when Jewish trauma is being weaponized and used to justify the Israeli genocide against Palestinians, the book An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing: Somatic Practices to Heal ...
Life is full of questions and ambiguity, but when it comes to Israel and the Jewish people, conversations often feel reduced ...
Denying Jewish men’s masculinity, or blaming them for weakening ‘traditional’ masculinity, has long been part of antisemitism ...
Here’s what I wish for my daughters: Fifteen years from now–when they go to college, I’ll come visit them on campus. They’ll introduce me to dear friends they’ve made from diverse backgrounds. Then we ...
The trauma of Oct. 7 and the war that has raged since dominated the thoughts of Jewish opinion writers in 2024, and the essays JTA published in its Ideas section. Most of these essays asked more ...
From mass baptisms to packed pews, a new Fox Nation documentary chronicles a profound spiritual awakening it suggests is ...
This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives.
At the Boulder Jewish Film Festival, the projector will roll, the popcorn will pop and the post-screening Q&As will veer into debates about character arcs and camera work. But outside of the Dairy ...
As leaders committed to protecting the safety and dignity of the Black and Jewish communities in San Diego, we have been in ...