Summer Reads for Sun—and Shade
Spies in the Warsaw Ghetto! Ob/Gyns on Everest! Handmaids of Ancient Canaan!
Spies in the Warsaw Ghetto! Ob/Gyns on Everest! Handmaids of Ancient Canaan!
The “essentialist” antisemitism argument is comforting, in an odd way—It’s not us, it’s them!—but dangerous.
Two Jewish voters explain their pick for president—and the impact of issues like Trump’s convictions and Biden’s handling of the war in Gaza.
Bert and I met on June 9, 1963, fell madly in love, talked incessantly, got engaged in October and married two months later, astonished by our commonalities and delighted by our differences.
It’s easy to say a Jewish state is not needed from the safety of the United States.
Stephen Miller, Trump’s speechwriter and the architect of the deportation proposal, promised the biggest forced movement of people in American history.
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.
“Trump’s base wants Trump because he’s their messianic hero, but also because he enables a small bloc of religious zealots to use the government to impose their biblical worldview on everyone else.”
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.
“For a Jewish kid from Pittsburgh to be buried with German soldiers under three Latin crosses, it just tore at my heart!”