Five Things to Know This Week: Most Jews Dislike Him, Yet Trump Carries On
Five Things to Know This Week: Trump Peace Plan, Part One
Trump administration’s Peace for Prosperity, Middle East Peace plan economic part released, Bahrain conference announced yet details and Palestinian cooperation unclear
Five Things to Know This Week: Beyond the Rashida Tlaib Controversy
By now, all political players have already found their place in the manufactured battle surrounding Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib’s latest comments on Israel.
Five Things to Know This Week: Responses to Gaza Escalation
Nathan Guttman’s weekly column summing up Israeli-American politics
The U.S. and the Aftermath of the Israeli Elections
In Israel, the April elections are over. President Rivlin has sworn in the 21st Knesset and given Prime Minister Netanyahu a month to form the next government of Israel.
The Jewish History of Punk
From its origins with Jewish musicians in the 1970s to modern-day Jewish punk bands, the histories of Jewish culture and punk rock are deeply intertwined.
The Girl in the Blue Sweater
Helena survived three concentration camps and when the last one was liberated she was flown by the Red Cross to a hospital in Sweden. She was 5’4″ and weighed 52 lbs. Her roommate in the hospital, a fellow survivor, knit the sweater for her while they were there. She told me she has worn that sweater every Passover since.
Tell Us: What Are Your Favorite Forgotten Passover Foods?
We want to hear from you: What Passover foods did you eat growing up that seem to have vanished?
Five Things to Know This Week: Trump’s Jewish American Gambit
Judith Viorst Talks Nearing 90
At 88 years old, Viorst doesn’t fail to remind us how fiercely funny she is in her appropriately titled poetry collection: Nearing 90 and Other Comedies of Late Life.
The Cold War’s Canadian Jewish Spies
It was August 1943. Only six months earlier the Red Army had defeated the Germans at Stalingrad. That month the first and only representative of the Communist Party to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons won a predominantly Jewish, working class district in Montreal.