The Promise of the Promised Land
by Sarah Kreimer
The taxi drove off, and I wondered if we had come to the right place. Footsteps crunching on gravel, we walked across an...
Meaning and the Two-State Solution
by Susan Pashman
As I set out to see for myself what was happening on Israel’s West Bank, I was also hungrily devouring Ari Shavit’s magnificent...
Week in Review: Knishes, Dates and Racist Rants
This week in Jewish news, from fun to awful.
Turns out knishes are stuffed—with history. The humble origins of the potato pie are elevated to Joycean...
“My Promised Land” Revisited
by Melvin Dow
Considering the numerous reviews written from divergent viewpoints, one might reasonably conclude that everything worth saying about Ari Shavit’s book, My Promised Land,...
Anti-Semitism: A Corrupting Influence
In our March/April issue, we examine the roots and legacy of that ancient hatred, anti-Semitism. Here we highlight one response, from David Nirenberg, a historian...
York and the Jews
by Alberta Weinberg
York is described in travel guides as a beautiful medieval city with Roman walls and a magnificent cathedral. My husband, Ken, and I...
Redeeming Haim Hazaz
by Darren Pinsker
When the Israeli writer Haim Hazaz died in 1973, his reputation was so lofty in the world of modern Hebrew letters that one...
Cycling Through Jewish Europe
by Michael Lyon
On an overcast late summer day, we were cycling north of Prague along the Elbe River, on the way to Hamburg, when we...
Anti-Semitism: Misdiagnosed in America?
In our March/April issue, we explore the thorny and ever-present issue of anti-Semitism: Where does it come from? Why does it persist? Here we highlight...
Anti-Semitism: Where Does It Come From? Why Does It Persist?
In our March/April issue, we examine two big questions with deep contemporary resonance: Where does anti-Semitism come from? Why does it persist? Here we highlight...
My Last Soviet Summer
by Maxim D. Shrayer
By summer of 1986, my parents and I had been refuseniks for 8 years. A 19-year-old university student, I took part in...
A Symposium on Anti-Semitism: Where does it come from and why does it persist?
https://js.hscta.net/cta/current.js// A symposium with: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Michael Barkun, David Berger, Bent Blüdnikow, Robert Chazan, Phyllis Chesler, Jeremy Cohen, Irwin...