Earlier this week, Rabbi Barry Schwartz wrote about needing more Jewish debate. His blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish ...

In his new book, Beyond Dispute: Rediscovering the Jewish Art of Constructive Disagreement, Daniel Taub – Israeli peace negotiator and former ambassador to the United Kingdom – draws from Jewish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 1 in 5 people in Spain and Portugal today may indeed be of “converso” origin: descendants of Jews or Muslims who converted ...

This Passover, as for thousands of years, Jews gathered around seder tables will recall the story of our ancestors’ enslavement in Egypt. The purpose of remembering, however, is a little unclear, and, ...

On one hand, the argument of Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched and unsparingly honest “Fear No Pharaoh” — that the 150,000 Jews in America at the time of the Civil War had a range of views and ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is fending off criticism from Jewish leaders in the city over a video published Friday by his office that profiled a “Nakba survivor” whose Palestinian family left ...

The debate in the state Senate over a bill to allow medical aid in dying (MAID), also referred to as assisted suicide, which ultimately passed, showcased two very different perspectives among ...

Ethnic studies requirements have become a flashpoint for Jewish communities across California. With a lawsuit filed against the Santa Ana Unified School District ...

(The Conversation) — In connection to Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day, media from the BBC and Fox to Reuters and Haaretz reported on new DNA evidence about the holiday’s original namesake.