Opinion | A ‘Mixed’ Marriage, a Lifelong Journey
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.
Opinion | Jewish Anti-Zionists, Check Your Privilege
It’s easy to say a Jewish state is not needed from the safety of the United States.
Opinion | A Deportation Policy With Chilling Echoes
Stephen Miller, Trump’s speechwriter and the architect of the deportation proposal, promised the biggest forced movement of people in American history.
Book Review | Noah Feldman Explains Us To Ourselves
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.
Opinion | Is the Christian Right Coming for Birth Control?
“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.”
Jewish Word | Verklempt: The Yiddish Word that Wasn’t
Borrowed from Yiddish and launched into the cultural stratosphere by a Canadian comedian and his Jewish mother-in-law, “verklempt” keeps evolving.
Talk of the Table | Hot Diggity Dog!
“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.
Jewish World War II Soldier Finally Rests In Peace
“For a Jewish kid from Pittsburgh to be buried with German soldiers under three Latin crosses, it just tore at my heart!”
Analysis | We Need To Talk About Willful Ignorance
To fail to understand why Israel is becoming isolated on the world stage or to reduce the reason to mere antisemitism is willful ignorance.Â
Hate and War: A Stark Correlation
Political scientist Ayal Feinberg’s research shows a correlation between Israeli military activity and U.S. antisemitism.
My Life in Recipes with Joan Nathan and Robert Siegel
Joan Nathan talks about her life, family history, and her many adventures discovering Jewish cuisine from around the world.
Nightingale of Iran with Danielle and Galeet Dardashti and Jennifer Bardi
Danielle and Galeet Dardashti, born and raised in the United States, knew very little about the lives of their father Farid and grandfather Younes in Iran when both were singing sensations and beloved by Iran’s Muslim community in the 1950s and 1960s.