Washington Jewish Week

A world-renowned expert on antisemitism and the grave danger it presents, Deborah Lipstadt has been on the front lines of the battle to combat...

https://youtu.be/EyRxF_Gl0Dc In the weeks since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel, people around the world have been glued to their televisions, computers and mobile...

https://youtu.be/u7U-lBuyKuY People from across the United States converged on the nation’s capital on Nov. 14 for a historic event in support of the state of...

Elon Musk, the mercurial billionaire owner of the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, may or may not be a racist and...

Over the past several weeks, several women active in various women’s rights issues wrote compelling op-ed pieces bemoaning that, despite overwhelming evidence of brutality,...

By Daniel S. Mariaschin We suspected it wouldn’t last much more than a week. In the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre, there was an outpouring...

By Yossi Kuperwasser While the IDF is engaged in Gaza, in what is becoming a protracted war, aiming to weaken Hamas and secure the release...

By Naomi Grant If you really cared about the Palestinians as people rather than a personification of your hatred of Israel and the Jewish people,...

As director/choreographer, Jerome Robbins was working on the 1964 path-breaking musical “Fiddler on the Roof.” At each meeting with lyricist Sheldon Harnick and composer...

I had a modestly successful garden this summer. I managed to grow some eggplant, some herbs, some leaf lettuces, some tomatoes and a bumper...

Amy Lummer has been involved with Jewish life in Northern Virginia for a long time. As a member of Congregation Adat Reyim, Director of...

Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff is a retired, decorated chaplain for the United States Navy, providing guidance to service members for 25 years after his own...

Aviva Kempner credits her career as a District-based, award-winning filmmaker and film producer to failing the D.C. bar exam. “I always thanked the D.C....

When Sue Gorlin was a child and away at camp during the summer of 1960, her mother received some awful news: She was diagnosed...

Imagine being a Jewish college student on campus today. You wake up on Saturday, October 7, and learn of the most violent and murderous...

US Air Force judge advocate Rena Winick Weinstein wasn’t quite sure what she wanted to do with her life when she graduated high school. As...

Two decades ago, the former British Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, astutely likened antisemitism to a constantly evolving virus. One that, in the modern...