Noah Feldman’s “To Be A Jew” Today offers readers from many branches of the Jewish family tree a glimpse of other boughs and limbs and what their close and distant cousins in Jewishness make of life in the family.
Borrowed from Yiddish and launched into the cultural stratosphere by a Canadian comedian and his Jewish mother-in-law, “verklempt” keeps evolving.
“He is the creature whose yells make night hideous, and whose wares make dreams that poison sleep,” began a Nashville newspaper’s 1886 characterization of the wienerwurst vendor.
Plus: AIPAC’s watershed moment in New York.
Rush’s Geddy Lee, child of Holocaust survivors, left Judaism when “not a single adult relative asked me how I was dealing with my loss.”
To fail to understand why Israel is becoming isolated on the world stage or to reduce the reason to mere antisemitism is willful ignorance.
“To be a Jew means to struggle with things you don’t understand, and to do them anyway.” Sleep is no different.
How the Israeli media covered the June 8 hostage rescue.
Noah Phillips visits the University of California-Berkeley campus and discovers the limitations of dialogue.
Plus: Israelis viewed Eurovision 2024, which took place in Malmo, Sweden, as nothing less than another battlefield.
I have no doubt that the sweaty, swaying kids on campus believed that they had found their Vietnam. Too bad their Vietnam was my 1932 Reichstag elections.
Passing the Antisemitism Awareness Act in response to students protesting the war in Gaza is a cynical, or at best naïve move says Professor Omer Bartov.
