I was offended by a Dungeons & Dragons scenario. Should I quit the people I play with?
‘A Bintel Brief’ advises a high schooler questioning friends who had her roleplay an ICE raid
‘A Bintel Brief’ advises a high schooler questioning friends who had her roleplay an ICE raid
‘Plenty of people killed, nobody knows about it, but God and the water’
For eight days, I camped outside of Israel’s Ministry of the Interior on a hunger strike, protesting the injustice I have suffered at the hands of the Israeli state during my nearly 4-year journey toward citizenship. It was under 40 degrees most nights. I ate nothing, drank sips of water and only left to pray…
Qian Julie Wang is the author of The New York Times bestseller “Beautiful Country,” a moving memoir of her childhood as an undocumented Chinese immigrant in New York, written on her iPhone during her subway commute to her job as a lawyer. She is the founder and leader of the Jews of Color group at…
Although he is little remembered today, a Jewish Congressman from Brooklyn is responsible for some of the most significant legislation of the 20th century. Emanuel Celler was the principal author of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965. He also spearheaded the…
Read this article in Yiddish Of the many stories my father has told me about his past, my favorite is the one about the day he became an American citizen. It was February 17, 1967. My dad sat inside the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, alongside a mosaic of others, waiting to…
Before “Hester Street," Jewish-American women characters who looked and acted “too Jewish” were often ridiculed
After President-elect Joe Biden backed off his promise to quickly end the Trump administration’s border policies, saying current restrictions are necessary to deter large numbers of asylum seekers, Jewish groups who came together to fight those restrictions are re-emphasizing the importance of their mission. “Biden needs to address the human rights abuses created by Trump…
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