Almost a half-century before Donald Trump signed on to the fraudulent notion that President Barack Obama’s American citizenship and constitutional legitimacy were suspect, Robert Welch (1899-1985) reached an equally alarming conclusion about the president of his day, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The rabbinic tradition speaks of a Jerusalem above and a Jerusalem below.
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In many Jewish homes, lighting candles at dusk marks a shift to sacred time, the moment when the Sabbath starts—or a holiday, a yahrzeit.
More often than not, the word “Talmudic” isn’t about the Talmud.
The music of Chopin brings together a mysterious young Hungarian Holocaust survivor and an American music student. But just when romance is in the air, he vanishes.
If you grew up in an Ashkenazi Jewish home, you might remember the delicious oven-baked brisket your mom served up for holidays.
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What, if any, obligations do we have toward Israel?
As Jonathan Safran Foer pioneered the 9/11 novel, so Shteyngart does for COVID.
