Zionists not welcome.” Someone shouts, “Baby killer.” And just like that, a political label becomes something else entirely — ...

Rabbi Barry Schwartz is director of The Jewish Publication Society in Philadelphia and rabbi of Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia, N.J. He is the author of “Judaism’s Great Debates” (Behrman House, ...

We also find it particularly distressing to discuss attacks upon the layout and usage of the Western Wall prayer area, which was recently closed due to missile threats, at this time. Yet even with ...

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 ...

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 ...

After Israeli families have received that dreaded knock at the door, hearing the life-shattering news of a fallen son, daughter, parent, spouse or sibling, I start my job. As a bereavement officer for ...

"We should be wary of arguments that reduce complex communities to binaries and caricature," writes one reader. Another: ...

A debate on the subject of the extended Jewish Agency was held Saturday night at the auditorium of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism in New York, under the auspices of the Avukah, the ...

The Black-Jewish relationship in Akron and throughout America has experienced collaboration, conflict and tension.