op/ed: Jews make news, but when is it Jewish news?
By Andrew Silow-Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) — “Is So-and-So Jewish? How Jewish is she? Find out if she’s Jewish.” I often joke that JTA reporters…
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Op/ Ed: Larry David’s Holocaust joke was an offense — against comedy
By Andrew Silow-Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) — In a famous episode of “Seinfeld,” Jerry is upset that his dentist, a recent convert to Judaism, is already telling…
op/ed: Here’s why I believed Elie Wiesel’s accuser
By Lior Zaltzman NEW YORK (JTA) — When I read the headline of Jenny Listman’s Medium piece — “When I was nineteen years old, Elie Wiesel…
Conservative movement doubles down on intermarriage and its rabbis ask why
By Ben Sales NEW YORK (JTA) — “It doesn’t help.” “I don’t know how it happened or why it happened.” “The most common response I’m…
Opinion: The Conservative movement can, and should, welcome the intermarried
By Bradley Shavit Artson, Arnold Eisen, Julie Schonfeld and Steven Wernick (JTA) — Contemporary Jewish life is graced by extraordinary blessing: We are the heirs…