“The framers of the U.S. Constitution were definitely worried about an authoritarian president. And I think they were really worried about demagogues, who are a bit like strongmen,” says Eric Posner, author of ‘The Demagogue’s Playbook.’
“The Jewish refugees now had a possible path of escape, if only they could get across the water.”
“For a Jewish kid from Pittsburgh to be buried with German soldiers under three Latin crosses, it just tore at my heart!”
Why do so few of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s historical roots and possible solutions, once actively discussed by both Jews and Arabs, make it into the conversation today?
Synagogue attack in Armenia. Anger over a committee to fight antisemitism in America. Denial of Hamas’ sexual violence against Israeli women in Canada. Read more in this week’s Antisemitism Monitor Newsletter.
In South Dakota, Jewish homesteaders made their fortune on land the Lakota Nation once called home. One of their descendants explores what a process of repair and repentance might look like.
The Americans soon forgot the turmoil in the streets of Munich in the fall of 1923. The Jews of Munich did not.
The news that President Carter’s United Nations ambassador, Andrew Young, had met in New York with a PLO representative spread furiously among the mostly Jewish residents of the new high-rise condominiums along southern Florida’s Gold Coast.
That Israel’s existence is miraculous is clear—as every respondent made sure to let us know—but the rest, like everything in Judaism, is up for debate.
A group of Turkish Jews is championing the revival of the 500-year-old Judeo-Spanish language
As the number of survivors shrinks, their experiences can be preserved, as new innovations allow us to hear those we’ve lost.
