The Polish Republic of Untruth
It didn’t take long for the recently elected government to have a troubling impact on the state of the country’s democracy.
Jewish Word // Blood libel
In September, Josh Marshall of the online political news outlet Talking Points Memo reached for an unexpected metaphor to express his disgust at Donald Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric…
Letter From Whitefish
A reporter visits the Montana resort town where a vicious neo-Nazi campaign is targeting Jews.
Opinion // Trump’s Not the End of the World
The Jewish community can learn from its fears of Ronald Reagan’s presidency.
From The Editor // January-February, 2017
Washington has had unseasonably warm weather, with leaves clinging to branches and roses blooming into the first weeks of winter. But the winds of political change have also blown into the nation’s capital.
Jewish Life in Trump’s America
After Donald Trump gave his victory speech in the early-morning hours of Nov. 9, we asked readers a few questions: How do you feel? What does the future look like? What will it mean to be Jewish in Trump’s America?
Spread Hummus, Not Hate: A Call for Peace
The stickers read “Spread Hummus, Not Hate.” On the American University quad Oct. 20, people wore them as a reminder that we all have a part in conflict resolution.
The Curious Case of Dorothy L. Sayers & the Jew Who Wasn’t There
A devoted reader examines the odd relationship between the so-called queen of British detective fiction and her Jewish characters.
Book Review // Disraeli: The Novel Politician
David Cesarani’s succinct new biography of preeminent Victorian statesman and novelist Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), Disraeli: The Novel Politician, challenges the commonly held view of Disraeli as having played a heroic role in Jewish history.
Putin’s Jews
Mina Yuditskaya Berliner, a retired teacher of German, could be forgiven for feeling surprised when one of her former students invited her for tea after almost half a century. Berliner, now 94, hadn’t seen him since she made aliyah to Israel from the USSR in 1973. But in 2005, the former student came to Israel to visit—an official visit, no less, the first ever made by a Soviet or Russian leader.
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s public intellectual no.1 has become its number-one defender of Jews—and democratic intervention around the world.
Opinion // Ben Cohen
Blaming the Jews, Again: European intellectuals have come up with a nasty new twist to anti-Semitism.