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We have so much to chat about—as soon as the war we never wanted is over

Hi, Terror Apologist! I don’t know who you are, why you care about the plight of Jews in the diaspora or in Israel, how long you’ve been involved with Jewish-Arab peace and coexistence movements, or how much you have personally at stake with the safety of Israeli Jews or people in Gaza, but I’m so glad you’re here. Perhaps you’re a gentile with a social justice bent and you’ve recently become interested in a centuries-old conflict between people you don’t know in a place you’ve never been near. Perhaps you are very online and are on an exciting algorithmic adrenaline ride, learning as you go. Perhaps you are an assimilated Jew with some intellectual curiosity and the epigenetic trauma response of trying to cover your ass so you’ll be accepted by the secular world. Whatever the case, you are alive and well and safe enough in this moment to be putting forth some sort of argument for—or implicit defense of—terrorism....

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‘We Chose the Chosen People’

A roundtable discussion with non-Jewish spouses about interfaith marriages, raising Jewish children, navigating Jewish and non-Jewish holidays, and where people do—and don’t—feel welcome

byAbigail Pogrebin

Jainism, American Style

Far from the religion’s ancient roots in India, a younger generation in the U.S. looks to a spiritual leader who channels the wisdom of a renowned mystic through his global network of Jain study centers aimed at making the teachings more ‘approachable’

byMaggie Phillips

‘We Chose the Chosen People’

A roundtable discussion with non-Jewish spouses about interfaith marriages, raising Jewish children, navigating Jewish and non-Jewish holidays, and where people do—and don’t—feel welcome

byAbigail Pogrebin

Buried Under the Stars

Many Jewish veterans of WWII were mistakenly given Christian gravestones. Operation Benjamin is trying to fix that.

byJamie Betesh Carter

Jainism, American Style

byMaggie Phillips

Buried Under the Stars

Many Jewish veterans of WWII were mistakenly given Christian gravestones. Operation Benjamin is trying to fix that.

byJamie Betesh Carter

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Back to Basics

Jewish education’s sizzling new model is raising a generation of invincible Jews

byLiel Leibovitz

Earlier this year, Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs announced it will kick off 2025 by investing $4 million in Project Aleph Bet, a new initiative designed to boost enrollment inJewish day schools in the United States. The original sum, officials said, was supposed to be larger, but more than a year of war and hundreds of thousands of displaced citizens led to budgetary constraints. And yet, the government decided to proceed with the initiative. It was, Paul Bernstein, the CEO of the Jewish day school group Prizmah, told eJewishphilanthropy, an important message and statement that the Jewish state was doubling down on Jewish education worldwide, seeing it as a crucial priority.

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Tablet talks about Judaism a lot, but sometimes we like to change the subject. Maggie Phillips covers religious communities across the U.S.—from Christians to Muslims, Hindus to Baha’i, Jehovah’s Witnesses to pagans—to find out what they’re talking about.