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...
Meet Hannah Risheq, America’s First Jewish-Muslim Politician
Hannah Risheq won’t be the first Jewish American in politics, nor is she the first Muslim American running for office. But the 25-year-old Virginian now seeking a seat on the State House Of Delegates...
Trump’s ‘Religious Liberty’ Executive Order Should Scare The Bejesus Out of the Jews
Be careful what you wish for.
For years, the Christian Right, abetted by some Orthodox Jewish allies, has claimed that there’s a war on religion in America. Sometimes it’s the “War on Christmas,” sometimes it’s...
Netanyahu Slams Abbas for Lying to Trump
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, at a joint press conference Wednesday with US President Donald Trump in Washington, claimed that children raised in the PA-administered areas of Judea and Samaria are taught values...
The Sad — But True — Facts About Campus Antisemitism
Those of us who care deeply about the safety and well-being of Jewish students on college campuses would like nothing more than for Mitchell Bard to be correct. For several years, and as recently as last...