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A Night Different From Others as Campus Protests Break for Seder
Pro-Palestinian protesters, many of whom are Jewish, prepared Seder dinners at college protest encampments, even as...
Some Jewish Students Are Targeted as Protests Continue at Columbia
After reports of harassment by demonstrators, some Jewish students said they felt unsafe. Others said they...
Joseph I. Lieberman, Senator and Vice-Presidential Nominee, Dies at 82
He served four terms in the Senate from Connecticut and was chosen by Al Gore as...
Opinion | The Great Rupture in American Jewish Life
What happens when liberalism and Zionism can no longer be reconciled?
Amnon Weinstein, Who Restored Violins From the Holocaust, Dies at 84
Many were left behind by victims of the gas chambers. He let the instruments be heard...
‘Part of My Core’: How Schumer Decided to Speak Out Against Netanyahu
In an interview in his native Brooklyn, America’s highest-ranking Jewish elected official said he felt obligated...
Opinion | When Artists Can’t Go Home, All That’s Left Is Their Art
Chaim Soutine’s identity was never integral to his art, even as a Jew whose death Nazis caused....
Opinion | Restoring the Past Won’t Liberate Palestine
When is decolonization helpful? And when does it set us back?
California’s Push for Ethnic Studies Runs Into the Israel-Hamas War
Link URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/us/california-ethnic-studies-israel-gaza-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk0.3mzf.u6x_PjSaZYed&smid=url-share Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~humanities/1e9m/californias_push_for_mandatory_ethnic_studies_classes_runs_into_the_israel_palestine_conflict_in Votes: 18 Comments: 20
Settler Colonialism: A Guide for the Sincere
A popular academic theory merits closer scrutiny.
‘We Are Not Very Far From an Explosion’
As the war grinds on in Gaza, settler attacks are rising — and Palestinian anger is...
Opinion | When Language Fails Us and the Moment
Plain, direct language remains rare and desirable — and risky in ways that those in authority,...
Opinion | Train Yourself to Always Show Up
Every gesture of recognition marries love and humility, vulnerability and sacred responsibility.
Black and Jewish Activists Have Allied for Decades. What Now?
The Palestinian cause has revived a partnership forged in the civil rights era — and also...
The Genocide Charge Against Israel Is a Moral Obscenity
In a war, the killing ends when one side stops fighting. In a genocide, that’s when...
Is Israel Part of What It Means to Be Jewish?
Some progressive Jews are embracing “diasporism” — reimagining their faith as one that blesses their lives...
Opinion | That Numbness You’re Feeling? There’s a Word for It.
Feeling other people’s pain is not the best way to help them — or yourself.
At These Schools, Arab and Jewish Students Share Their Feelings, With Each Other
At a time when support for peace is at a low, conversations at Israel’s Hand in...
Where Was the Israeli Military?
A Times investigation found that troops were disorganized, out of position and relied on social media...