Having left a number of messages for Santos I was surprised when, in the midst of the most recent government funding showdown in the House, he actually called me back. ...
She was the longest-serving woman in U.S. Senate history and the first Jewish woman to be sworn in as senator. ...
Jews were on both sides of the racist Wilmington Massacre of 1898, the only successful coup in United States history. ...
Allegra, you’ve described your work as post-ethnic, post-deli Judaism—“Jewish life beyond Roth and Bellow, Woody Allen, and bagels and lox.”
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Every year I look forward to reading submissions to the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. ...
Some of Israel's Supreme Court justices are terrified of the situation. ...
If you’re in a room full of mainstream Jews who hew to the uncritical AIPAC line about Israel, you undoubtedly know that “apartheid,” “racist” and “fascist” are three words you can’t say about the Jewish state without risking denunciation, cancellation or total excommunication from the tribe. ...
In 1970 The New York Times ran an article about the secret language of New York City police officers. ...
In 1974, Martin Peretz and his wife Anne bought The New Republic with her money. ...
A tradition at my friend’s Passover seder is for guests to go around the table and say what they would carry with them when leaving Egypt. ...
For more than four decades after he was suddenly and unceremoniously removed from participation in the 100-meter relay race at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Marty Glickman—then a young athlete, later a beloved voice of New York sports radio—vaguely and quietly chalked up the greatest disappointment of his life ...
If Israel wants to discriminate against Palestinian Americans, that is its prerogative. But the United States can’t allow special rules for some U.S. citizens and not others. ...