Opinion | Ilhan Omar’s Blast from the Past
Ilhan Omar’s tweets caused a controversy. But anti-Semitism in Congress is nothing new.
Five Things to Know This Week: Is the Ilhan Omar Issue Over Yet?
Democrats may wish this story fades away, and pro-Israel advocates are probably hoping that the last moment could be magically erased, but the Ilhan Omar story is here to stay. At least for a while.
Five Things to Know This Week: Can Bernie Sanders show Ilhan Omar the right way to criticize Israel?
1. Ilhan Omar watch: Where’s Bernie? House Democrats are spending more and more time trying to understand, educate and counter
Five Things To Know This Week: AIPAC and Bibi Clash
1. Are Bibi and AIPAC no longer BFFs? As promised last week, the Ilhan Omar controversy has died out and
Five Things to Know This Week: Omar Fallout, Israeli Elections & Trump’s Peace Plan
Nathan Guttman’s “Five Things” Column lists all the issues you should watch this coming week.
Five Things to Know This Week: Breaking Down the Ilhan Omar Scandal
1. Unpacking the Ilhan Omar scandal The Facts: Freshman Democrat Ilhan Omar, one of two newly-elected Muslim women in the
What Will Be the Fate of the House of Fates?
The House of Fates is ground zero in a struggle over history and memory, raising questions that are pertinent today not only in Hungary but also across post-communist Europe. The struggle is about the politicization of the Holocaust by an increasingly autocratic government and about who gets to tell its story, and how.
Five Things to Know This Week: With New Bill, Anti-Semitism Remains a Partisan Issue
Last week, Republican Lee Zeldin introduced House Resolution 72. Its title, “Rejecting anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred in the United States and around the world,” should have promised a wide bipartisan group of co-sponsors rushing to sign on.
Book Review | The Life of a Library
In Prince of the Press, Joshua Teplitsky brings us inside David Oppenheim’s library to explore the ways this collection both reflected and shaped the intellectual heritage of Central European Jewry.
Book Review | Hollywood’s Proud Zionist
The great French film director Jean-Luc Godard called Ben Hecht a “genius” who “invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood today.” Yet most modern American Jews have likely never heard of Hecht, despite his eminence as a playwright, best-selling novelist and screenwriter of a host of Hollywood film classics.
Book Review | The American Jewish Identity Crisis Rages On
American Jews may not know their way around the Talmud or much about Jewish history, but they sure do excel at soul-searching and have for many, many years. In the late 19th century, in the mid-20th and again in our own day, taking the community’s pulse—and finding it weak and listless—has been a common pursuit and a constant refrain.
The Vilification of George Soros In Israel
Billionaire George Soros has been accused of being anti-Israel and a Nazi collaborator. In the United States, Hungary, Israel, and some parts of American-Jewish community. This story tells how he became vilified.