In Kantika, Rebecca—who is both a dressmaker and a beauty—is interested in manipulating surfaces and self-fashioning. ...
Zimler discusses life as an American Jew in Portugal, how Jewish history had been erased from Portuguese memory and the role of generational trauma in our lives today. ...
Is it safe to guess that Biden has little to worry about with Jewish voters? ...
Today’s societal breakdown may seem like it’s left versus right, or secular versus religious. In reality it’s also about the role of women. ...
Join our distinguished panelists to learn why we should be paying attention to the rise of Christian nationalism and what can be done about it. ...
The Jewish past and future demand both a homeland and a diaspora, and it is our ongoing responsibility to find a balance between them. ...
In honor of Israel’s 75th birthday I created a menu that serves as a culinary representation of the newborn State of Israel in 1948, with dishes demonstrating the nascent nation’s human diversity ...
That Israel’s existence is miraculous is clear—as every respondent made sure to let us know—but the rest, like everything in Judaism, is up for debate. ...
“Politicians speak of disengagement, like ‘Israel’s disengaged from Gaza.’ Well, environmentally, that’s bullshit,” says Bromberg. “It’s impossible to disengage from a shared environment." ...
Because different people use it in so many different ways, we end up talking past each other, especially in conversations between those who say they support Zionism and those who say they oppose it. ...
Israel was not considered as a name for the new Jewish state until late in the deliberations. ...
How do we narrate the Shoah when the living consciousness of the Holocaust is gone? The natural human instinct for justice has been felled by time. What is left is the demand for accountability, transparency, memory. ...