The settlers’ attack on Huwara is not the Orthodox Judaism I grew up on
by Aviad Houminer-Rosenblum (JTA) — Nighttime in Huwara, a small Palestinian town in the West Bank. Jews in large skullcaps and sidelocks, prayer fringes dangling from…
Opinion
The JTA conversation: Pogrom? Terrorism? What do we call what happened in Huwara?
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — On Sunday Feb. 26, after a Palestinian gunman shot and killed two Israeli brothers in the West Bank, Jewish settlers…
Netflix’s ‘You People’ wasn’t funny at all to my Black and Mexican Jewish family
by Cinthya Silverstein (JTA) — As a couple that is two parts Jew, one part Black, and all parts lovers of comedy, my husband and…
Op/ed: Why we’ll fight Israel’s new extremist political agenda with the determination of the Maccabees
by Rabbi Rick Jacobs (JTA) — The Book of Exodus tells us that the penultimate plague inflicted on Egypt, the plague of darkness, was one of…
An Israel analyst’s best- and worst-case scenarios for the new right-wing government
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — The recent Israeli elections, the fifth in less than four years, returned Benjamin Netanyahu to the driver’s seat for the…