From 2004 | Break-Fast on Cyprus
The British allowed us to visit the seashore on the eve of Yom Kippur so we could purify ourselves for the Day of Atonement.
The British allowed us to visit the seashore on the eve of Yom Kippur so we could purify ourselves for the Day of Atonement.
A conversation about the origins, depth and breadth of Christian nationalism, white supremacism and antisemitism throughout the American Christian world and what can be done to push back against the divisions they have created.
I believe being a mensch and always doing for others what you wish for your loved ones and yourself on a daily basis is most important.
A conversation about how Jews and Muslims follow similar paths in their American experience.
Memorial ceremonies are not meant to take away our pain. Ritualized and structured, they are supposed to give us an outline for living with the pain and grief.
She’s a Jewish mother’s worst nightmare and a Jewish man’s Gentile goddess.
António Guterres has disproportionately focused on condemning Israel’s legally justified actions.
In “Searching for Our Ben-Gurion and Jabotinsky” and “Six Days Without Waze” (part of the “Israel Vision Project,” Summer 2024), Nadine Epstein introduces Evyatar Lipkin and Nadav Salzberger, two moderate Israelis with opposing ideologies who stand for a promising bipartisan political future in Israel.
The irony of both books is that they replicate the intellectual sins they ascribe to Zionists—one-sided descriptions of Israeli actions, lack of self-criticism, and suffocating certainty.
The two million Eastern European Jews who migrated to the United States between 1870 and the outbreak of World War I had been preceded by smaller movements of Jews to America: in colonial times, hundreds of Sephardim who fled Inquisitions; later, tens of thousands of Central European, mostly German, Jews who came, saw and prospered phenomenally in the middle of the 19th century.
“They were the shining realization of the Jewish American dream, people who could load their plates with all that this country had to offer.”