The Conversation
I had difficulty finishing this piece since I was laughing so hard that my vision was blurry.
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Sep
27
Sep
Fiction | Private
Today, another of my usual jogs—the thousandth step of a thousandth run, every run varied enough to include something new.
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Sep
21
Sep
Spice Box | My Grandma Was a Rolling Stone
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21
Sep
Jewish Word | The Joyful Power of Hallelujah
In American culture, the word “hallelujah” is so associated with Christian prayer and music—and overall rejoicing and jubilation—that people often forget it is originally Hebrew.
21
Sep
Talk of the Table | The Bundt Is Born
In 1950, Rose Joshua and Fannie Schanfeld met with H. David Dalquist, owner of the Scandinavian cookware manufacturing company Nordic Ware, to discuss a proposal.
21
Sep
In the Shadow of the Lynching Memorial
Midsummer, in an aging subcompact rental car, because that was all we could get, my husband and I took a civil rights tour through the Deep South.
15
Sep
An Inconvenient Genocide
In the 1930s, America failed to stand up to Nazi actions against the Jews. Will history repeat itself with the Uyghur minority in China’s Xinjiang region?
13
Sep
Book Review | The Mother of Hadassah—and Israel
“Wherever she sat and led the discussion, there was the head of the table.” Thus observed an early associate of Henrietta Szold’s in Hadassah, the powerhouse American women’s Zionist organization that she founded in 1912.
13
Sep
Book Review | America’s Homegrown Jewish Terrorist
For liberal supporters of Israel, the unresolved status of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza presents a dilemma: a choice between a single state with so many Arab citizens as to inevitably dilute the Jewish character of the country, or the insistence of control over but denial of equal rights to millions of Palestinians, diluting if not destroying Israel’s democratic character.