Jodi Blecker
In ‘Sex Cells,’ Phyllis Greenberger continues her fight to overcome bias and discrimination in women’s healthcare.
Probably every Jew of my (baby-boom) generation knows that Sandy Koufax sat out an important game for the Dodgers on Yom Kippur
The British allowed us to visit the seashore on the eve of Yom Kippur so we could purify ourselves for the Day of Atonement.
Moment
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.
Pam Janis
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.
Moment
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.
Eve Epstein
António Guterres has disproportionately focused on condemning Israel’s legally justified actions.
Moment
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.
