Emanuele Ottolenghi on Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress
Ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint meeting of Congress next week, which will outline the case against a nuclear deal with Iran, White...
Israeli Ambassador to Denmark Responds to Copenhagen Shootings
On Monday evening, a huge memorial rally was held in Copenhagen for the victims of the weekend's shootings, in which a gunman killed two people,...
Morris Abram: The Man Who Unmasked the KKK and Helped Establish “One Person, One Vote”
by Cecily Abram
Those who remember Morris Berthold Abram may recall his tenure as president of Brandeis University during the tumultuous years of 1968-1970. Yet many...
Color Red, Color Red
by David W. Weiss
July 14, 2014
We have just been seated on the motorized cart that takes handicapped passengers to the departure gates when the sirens...
An Argentine Journalist on Fallout from Prosecutor’s Mysterious Death
The plot unfolded like a murder mystery.
First, on January 18, Argentine state prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead from a gunshot wound. The timing was uncanny:...
The Enduring Relevance of Tu B’Shevat
Today marks the Jewish holiday Tu B’Shevat. Tu B’Shevat celebrates the new year for trees and is often marked with a Tu B’Shevat seder, where attendees...
Shmuel Rosner on Upcoming Israel Elections
Israel’s election season heated up this week as political parties rushed to submit their final list of candidates. Much is at stake: This time, unlike...
A Third-Generation Remembrance of Holocaust’s Horrors
Today, on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the horrors of the Holocaust loom large in the world’s collective memory. But for those...
The Last Laugh: “Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews” Reviewed
by Andrea Greenbaum
In 1996, I spent a year in smoky comedy clubs in Tampa, Florida to document the rhetorical style of standup comedians. I paid...
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jews in the Civil Rights Movement
This weekend we honor civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King, Jr, who helped pave the way for a new era of racial integration in America....
Rising Anti-Semitism and the Charlie Hebdo Massacre
For the French-Jewish community, last week's attacks were a confirmation of their worst fears. After a year of rising anti-Jewish violence—attacks on Jewish families, synagogue firebombings, anti-Semitic marches—Jews...
Why We Write Jewish Historical Fiction
by Nomi Eve and Stephanie Feldman
What makes Jewish historical fiction special—as an art form, and as a conversation among Jewish writers and readers? Novelists Nomi...