Talk of the Table | Back to the Future: 50 Years of Jewish Food
If you were a devotee of Jewish food and alive in 1975, you might remember…nothing much at all.
If you were a devotee of Jewish food and alive in 1975, you might remember…nothing much at all.
In many ways Theodore Roosevelt was limited by the ideas of his times.
Missed opportunities at a few key junctures have festered for decades.
The most important change in Israel’s last 50 years is as visible to the naked eye as it is generally overlooked.
Today, notwithstanding President Trump’s faltering approval numbers overall, he is rated higher on immigration than on any other issue.
He is made up of Jewish influences and he is a metaphor for the Jewish experience.
History is replete with examples of people naïvely voting against their interests or loving a leader who doesn’t love them back.
I hope I’m not being naïve in thinking that what these memory activists accomplished endures and their dedication still inspires.
The stereotype of “Jewish” hair is rooted in a history of racial pseudoscience, radical self-empowerment and comic self-deprecation.