Hours after the horrific attacks in Southern Israel, Israelis at all levels of government had already heard directly that the United States had their back. ...
She was the longest-serving woman in U.S. Senate history and the first Jewish woman to be sworn in as senator. ...
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. ...
“The tradition of sending out greeting cards at the start of the Jewish month of Elul probably dates to the
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In 1970 The New York Times ran an article about the secret language of New York City police officers. ...
If Israel wants to discriminate against Palestinian Americans, that is its prerogative. But the United States can’t allow special rules for some U.S. citizens and not others. ...
At times I feel like I am not among Jews but impostors meticulously reading from a script. At other times, their utter faith makes me question my own. ...
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Putting on The Moss Maidens—the production that won the Best Play and Best Ensemble awards at SheNYC, a recent theater festival—felt particularly cathartic for the play’s Jewish cast and crew members. ...
My parents never spoke “Jewish” at home—they wanted their kids to be American. But the year the survivors lived with us, I learned Yiddish in teaching them English. ...
During the trial, prosecutors called on 60 witnesses, and survivors testified to their horrifying experiences inside the synagogue. ...
For years, a one-dimensional view of Israel has poisoned the environment for Jews in Britain’s national students’ union. After an official investigation, will the situation improve? ...