The news that President Carter’s United Nations ambassador, Andrew Young, had met in New York with a PLO representative spread furiously among the mostly Jewish residents of the new high-rise condominiums along southern Florida’s Gold Coast.
A remarkable and rare pair of elaborate silver Torah finials have been jointly acquired by New York’s Jewish Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston.
Peering into the jar, I can see the little brown heads, eyes, bodies and wings of about 30 dried locusts.
The terebinth tree in the Arava is at least a thousand years old, as was her mother before her.
Every year I look forward to reading submissions to the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest.
If you’re in a room full of mainstream Jews who hew to the uncritical AIPAC line about Israel, you undoubtedly know that “apartheid,” “racist” and “fascist” are three words you can’t say about the Jewish state without risking denunciation, cancellation or total excommunication from the tribe.
In 1970 The New York Times ran an article about the secret language of New York City police officers.
In 1974, Martin Peretz and his wife Anne bought The New Republic with her money.
A tradition at my friend’s Passover seder is for guests to go around the table and say what they would carry with them when leaving Egypt.
