19
Feb
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.
28
Jan
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.
24
Jan
No, Holocaust Survivor George Soros Was NOT a Nazi
Billionaire George Soros has been accused of being a Nazi collaborator. This story tells how this anti-Semitic trope went from the extreme to the mainstream.
18
Jan
Ask The Rabbis | How Has Pittsburgh Changed Jewish Life for Your Community?
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By
Moment
Our reaction to the events in Pittsburgh began with mourning for the victims. From mourning we moved to the legitimate fear that comes from living in a nation where easily procured weapons of mass death terrorize people of color, Muslims, LGBTQ people and—as always—Jews.
15
Jan
Five Things to Know This Week: Where Is Trump’s Anti-Semitism Envoy?
Seriously, for a White House struggling to shake off criticism of being too hospitable to extremists and anti-Semites on the margins of its support base, the Trump administration’s reluctance to fill the of anti-Semitism envoy is starting to raise concerns.
14
Jan
Anti-Semitism Monitor 2019
The Anti-Semitism Monitor reports anti-Semitic incidents around the world by country and date on a weekly basis.
14
Jan
Opinion | How Trump Mainstreams Anti-Semitism
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By
Jeffrey Herf
President Donald Trump has brought the mental habits of anti-Semitism from the political fringe into the White House. And yet this is the same Trump...
12
Nov
Book Review | Hitler’s American Friends By Bradley W. Hart
Hitler’s American Friends:
The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States
By Bradley W. Hart
St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne Books
2018, 304 pp, $28.99
Four days after Pearl Harbor and the...
08
Nov
Opinion | The Tough Task of Defining Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed toward Jewish...
08
Nov
From the Editor | Dangerous Rhetoric, Dangerous Times
In 2014, four people were shot to death at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, Belgium, two years after the killings of four Jews, including three children, at the Ozar Hatorah School in Toulouse in the south of France. These tragedies and others like them made it clear that anti-Semitism, that pernicious prejudice, was alive and well.
08
Nov
Opinion | Poland and Hungary Are the Tip of the Iceberg
The news from Central Europe seems to be uniformly bad: democracy threatened, rule of law subverted, historical revisionism triumphant. It all carries a nasty 1930s flavor. To Western readers, moreover, most of that news seems to come from Budapest and Warsaw. We don’t hear much from such places as Bratislava, Bucharest or Ljubljana—and no news is good news, right? Look again.
02
Nov
Are We Turning the Tree of Life Massacre Into Another Partisan Issue?
This is the new normal for many members of the Pittsburgh Jewish community: splitting their time between mourning the dead and protesting the hate that brought about the tragedy.