It’s a truism of geopolitics that disorder somewhere breeds disorder elsewhere. ...
In South Dakota, Jewish homesteaders made their fortune on land the Lakota Nation once called home. One of their descendants explores what a process of repair and repentance might look like. ...
Since October 7 and the subsequent Israel-Hamas war, the word genocide has been used liberally by parties on both sides of the conflict. ...
Lois and Arden Shenker of Portland, Oregon, have been collecting spice boxes from around the world since 1957, and now have a collection of 34. ...
Antisemitism, like Islamophobia—charges of which have been similarly made by Muslim and Arab students on a number of campuses—should be calculated by actual, violent incidents on campuses, not by unverifiable threats, or perceived feelings of being threatened. ...
The Americans soon forgot the turmoil in the streets of Munich in the fall of 1923. The Jews of Munich did not. ...
If you want to end the Israeli Palestinian conflict, you need four things. You give me two of these things and I'll give you a fighting chance to succeed. ...
What can we American Jews do about the mortal perils now confronting the state of Israel, and about the
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A look at the evolution of Hezbollah inside Lebanon's fractured political system and Iran's growing influence throughout the Middle East. ...
A tattoo offers a means of protesting against one part of society while conforming to another. A young Israeli put it perfectly when he said, "I want a different tattoo, like everybody else." ...
No country could be expected to forgo retaliation for attacks on innocent citizens in its own territory. But what are the long-term goals? ...
We sat in stunned silence as the Holocaust-like scenario slowly spread through our unwilling consciousness, forced by the incontestable, nightmarish evidence: a paradigm change of all we had depended on and believed about our security. ...