Amid Refugee Crisis, Jewish Groups Step Up
by Laura Davis and Emily Shwake
Since the original outbreak of fighting in March of 2011, nearly 4 million Syrians have left their country, according to...
Pope Francis: Good For The Jews?
by Emily Shwake
Pope Francis’s visit to the United States has been met largely with adulation from both Catholic and non-Catholic or even entirely secular spectators....
Book Review // On the Move
There is a seeming transparency in the prose of On the Move, the late Oliver Sacks’s memoir about leaving home and the divergent, sometimes vagabond, life he made.
Wooing American Jews on the Iran Deal: A Timeline
The outreach since April has included a stream of conference calls and meetings.
‘Oriented’ Examines What it Means to be Gay and Palestinian in Israel
Two years ago Jake Witzenfeld, a new Jewish Tel Aviv transplant from England, discovered Qambuta Productions—a fresh, subversive and artistic Palestinian voice on YouTube that uses parody to illustrate social and political issues in the Arab community.
Wieseltier on Oren: “[I’m] Outraged and Offended”
“I don’t take kindly to being called anti-Semitic and I don’t take kindly to having Jewish self-hatred attributed to me. I don’t take kindly to it at all.”
A Jewish Take on Caitlyn Jenner
by Amara McLaughlin
Five years before Vanity Fair unveiled Caitlyn Jenner on their front cover, Joy Ladin’s story made headlines and front pages in Jewish media.
The...
Book Review // A World Without Jews
No topic in history has provoked a greater outpouring of books and treatises than Hitler’s Third Reich. As of 1995 there were 25,000 titles on the Nazi era, and by the year 2000, the total reached “a whopping 37,000,” according to author Alon Confino, who cites a scholarly list compiled in Darmstadt. This continuing flood attests to the ongoing struggle, within and without Germany, to comprehend the motivations behind the rise of National Socialism and its monstrous offspring, the Holocaust.
Opinion// Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Islamophobia, The Flip Side of Anti-Semitism: We Jews need to be careful about diminishing and defaming Muslims.
Opinion // Shmuel Rosner
Pity the Israeli Voter: No matter which party is in power, Israelis will end up disappointed.
Opinion // Fania Oz-Salzberger
Regardless of the outcome of Israel’s general elections on March 17, the campaign for the 20th Knesset will be remembered for its verbal brutality, rhetoric shallowness and viral viciousness. Never has an Israeli election been so devoid of serious debate on the core issues. Whether Netanyahu or Herzog and Livni win at the polls, the main loser is already known: rational debate and communal ethos.
Invite non-Jews to your Seder!
Editor and publisher Nadine Epstein asks you to invite a non-Jew to your seder this year in order to help combat anti-Semitism.