Biblical scholars started to cast a critical gaze on the Old Testament, and on their composition, in the 17th and 18th centuries. Early on, European researchers and scholars were drawn to a puzzling story in 2 Kings 22: the exploits of King…
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Bari Weiss Built Her Career Attacking Israel’s Critics. Now She Controls a U.S. Broadcast News Empire
Since announcing a cease-fire with Hamas last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has granted an interview to exactly one international media outlet: CBS News. On Tuesday morning, he sat across from the network’s morning show co-host Tony…
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Israeli Minister Tells Far-right U.K. Agitator Tommy Robinson That Keir Starmer Is ‘Weakest PM Since Chamberlain’ in Visit to Israel
British far-right activist Tommy Robinson on Thursday visited Israel’s southern border with Gaza, where he was warned by his host, a Likud cabinet minister, that if the United Kingdom did not address the threat of radical Islam more forcefully,…
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Exploring the 'pariahs of society': In 'Unfit', a Jewish writer from Argentina depicts a woman's spectacular breaking point
Ariana Harwicz’s blazing novel ‘Unfit’ tells the story of Lisa, a Jewish Argentine immigrant in rural France battling for custody of her children as her mental health unravels. Harwicz tells Haaretz how her own ‘Kafkaesque’ experience in court…
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Amid rising antisemitism in Norway, one of the world's northernmost synagogues turns 100
As politicians and dignitaries take part in Trondheim Synagogue’s centennial celebrations later this month, for the city’s small but growing Jewish population it has become a safe haven from post-October 7 antisemitism
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Amid rising antisemitism and far-right nationalism, U.K. Jews find their plight politicized
A right-wing politician’s speech at an antisemitism rally and Israel’s embrace of extremist Tommy Robinson after the Manchester synagogue attack has some British Jewish leaders warning about mistaking far-right elements for allies
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‘A Platform to Kosherize Himself’: Mamdani’s Invite to New York Synagogue for Community Discussion Spurs Protest
As synagogues across New York prepared on Sunday to celebrate the final days of Sukkot and of Simchat Torah, protesters gathered outside Congregation Beth Elohim (CBE), a historic Reform synagogue in Park Slope, to demonstrate against a scheduled…
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How the Gaza war changed a generation of young Jews around the world, in their own words
How the Gaza war changed a generation of young Jews around the world, in their own words
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Berlin Magazine Staff Strike Over Ad for Exhibit on Oct. 7 Music Festival Hamas Massacre
Journalists working for The Berliner Magazine are on strike after the magazine’s management refused to pull ads for an exhibition commemorating the October 7 Nova festival massacre. More than 15 writers, editors and illustrators are participating…
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In Argentina, Jewish politicians face off against shofar-loving president and a 'Jewish goy'
Home to the world’s sixth-largest Jewish population, Argentina’s midterm elections feature a record number of Jewish candidates from across the political spectrum – from President Javier Milei’s right-wing supporters to an anti-Zionist…
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