Neumann claims that liberal Judaism in America hijacked the Jewish tradition by distorting the concept of tikkun olam to fit their left-leaning and “anti-Israel” politics.
Vivian Gornick reviews Susie Linfield's The Lions' Den, a book critiquing the Left's stance on Israel through a variety of notable thinkers, including Hannah Arendt, Noam Chomsky, and others.
Moment asked millennial Jews, "How is your Judaism different from your parents'?" The young generation of the Jewish community looks diverse—and proud to be Jewish.
Warder Cresson's wife and most of his family, claiming that he was clearly out of his mind, lodged a charge of lunacy and obtained a verdict of insanity from a Sheriff's jury.
It took the Holocaust to make casual anti-Jewish talk so toxic that polite society wouldn’t stand for it. Eroding that sense of toxicity is much easier; internet memes can do it. But it’s also possible to invite backlash against strong, important taboos by clinging to weaker ones that are broader than necessary. We ignore the distinction at our peril.
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.
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.
When Akiva Weisinger started the Facebook group “God Save Us From Your Opinion: A Place For Serious Discussion of Judaism” in 2014, he viewed it as a place for “me and a couple of friends to discuss Judaism,” the 27-year-old teacher recalls.