04
Mar
The Secret History of X & O
An investigation into the religious roots of the symbols for hugs & kisses.
03
Mar
Opinion | Do We Still Need an Arbiter of Anti-Semitism?
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By
Sarah Posner
By Sarah Posner
The time has passed when one person can speak for the entire community.
When Abraham Foxman, the longtime national director of the Anti-Defamation League,...
11
Feb
Book Review: A Child of Christian Blood, The Devil That Never Dies
Richard Bernstein reviews two new works on anti-Semitism by Edmund Levin and Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.
28
Jan
The Holocaust Through the Eyes of Women
For the first four decades after the Holocaust, most memoirs and historical studies viewed life in the camps through male eyes. But since the early...
04
Nov
Hate Speech Goes Viral
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By
Josh Tapper
As the Internet has expanded the frontiers of 21st-century freedom of expression, it has given rise to new opportunities for hate speech. // But what constitutes hate speech, which broadly refers to language that incites prejudice against racial, religious and ethnic groups and is legislated and regulated by governments around the world? There is no one definition.
02
Jul
Travels with Pnin
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By
Nadia Kalman
In college, I made the ill-advised decision to join the cross-country ski team. Slow, given to daydreams, and so lacking any sense of direction that...
14
Jun
How Jew-Friendly Persia Became Anti-Semitic Iran
The complex tale of how the Persian Empire founded by Cyrus the Great—the world’s “first” Zionist—metamorphosed into the Israel-Hating nation we know today.
Abdol Hossein Sardari...
31
Jul
Natan Sharansky: Act III, Scene I
Soviet Jewry’s leading man has had a career of many acts: dissident, politician and now, head of Israel’s Jewish Agency. Through them all, he has...
18
May
The New Religious Intolerance: An Interview with Martha Nussbaum
By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
From Switzerland’s ban on minarets, to France’s ban on headscarves, and the controversy that raged over Park 51, the “Ground Zero Mosque”...
14
Mar
How Jerry Falwell Changed the Republican Party
By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
Jerry Falwell “stamped out” anti-Semitism in the Republican Party, said Michael Sean Winters, a reporter for the National Catholic Reporter—and no Falwell...
09
Jan
Katy Perry's Father Clears Up Confusion Over What Jews Smell Like
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By
Sala Levin
Well, cross kabbalat Shabbat services off the list of things Katy Perry probably did last Friday night. The singer's father, Keith Hudson--an Ohio preacher--recently gave...
09
Jan
Katy Perry’s Father Clears Up Confusion Over What Jews Smell Like
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By
momentadmin
Well, cross kabbalat Shabbat services off the list of things Katy Perry probably did last Friday night. The singer's father, Keith Hudson--an Ohio preacher--recently gave...