Misrepresenting Israel
In preparing for next week’s visit to Israel, it’s important that President Donald Trump and his team get an accurate reading on where Israelis and Palestinians stand on the peace process, what compromises they...
Why You Should Consider Starting Your Family Earlier Than You’re Planning
This is part four of my series on fertility challenges within the American Jewish community that started in the now shuttered altFem magazine. It is also the second part of my deeper dive into...
Welcome to the Jew-nited Nations
it was fitting that some of the biggest players in the United Nations – including the new Secretary General and Donald Trump’s popular ambassador – dominated the headlines at the World Jewish Congress’ plenary...
Better Functioning Of The Brain With Electricity
Up until recently, hacking was a term used for the invasion of the internal working space of a computer or some other modern device by certain humans for purposes of control and manipulation. It...
Yosl (Jose) Kozer, from a Yiddish home come the voice of Cuba
I got lost driving through New Hampshire's winding roads going to interview José Kozer, the prize-winning Cuban-born poet who recently visited Dartmouth College as part of the prestigious Montgomery Fellows Residency Program. When I...
Author of controversial ‘Jewish State’ bill insists it’s unprejudiced and fair
n June 2011, Avi Dichter, then an opposition Knesset member with the centrist Kadima party, started collecting signatures for a proposal he had been working on to officially define Israel as a Jewish state...
The First Jewish President?
'(JFK) inspired a generation to enter public service and to ask what they could do for their country. President Barack Obama inspired me in the same way,' he said.
'My life changed in 2008 because a...
In two more generations, there won’t be any Jews left here’
Former President of the Versailles Jewish Community Samuel Sandler spoke to Arutz Sheva about the special request he would like to make of France's Culture Ministry.
Sandler lost his son and two grandsons in a...
Christianisme Évités En Judéo-Espagnol
En 1981 j’éditais mon article
« Christianismes en judéo-espagnol (calque et vernaculaire) », in The International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 30 (81), pp.73 à 88.
Depuis lors, j’ai poursuivi mes recherches et constate qu’en judéo-espagnol...
Viral pontiff: Francis dances with Hasidic Jews at the Vatican
It’s rare to see Pope Francis bopping behind the walls of the Apostolic Palace.
Actually, if anyone has ever seen any pope dancing they’ve never said anything, nor filmed it and put it on YouTube.
Yet...