Daily Archives: May 27, 2017
Conversion: time to end the stigma
Last month, I did something I never thought I’d do — not publicly, anyway. Until recently, I wouldn’t have entertained the idea. But in April, I wrote in the JC about Pesach in the...
Revelation for the resistance
What precisely are we showing up to receive? The debate over the extent of revelation has raged for millennia: Were the ten utterances revealed? Or the five books? Or did Moses simply receive the...
Bad jews’ director says characters’ histrionics not about stereotypes
Journalists writing about a play usually aren’t invited to see the actors perform until opening night. But 11 days before the Toronto premiere of Bad Jews, Joshua Harmon’s hit play, I arrive at the...
Jewish culinary cuisines continue to evolve
When it comes to Jewish food, it can be defined in different ways: For Steven Cook, it was his mother’s matzo ball soup made with onion soup mix; for Joan Nathan, it was canned...
Bulgarian deputy PM defends ‘jokes’ about Holocaust
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov is under fire after reportedly making light of anti-Semitism and cracking jokes about the Holocaust.
Pavel Tenev, appointed as a deputy minister from the United Patriots party in the...
Facebook ‘irresponsible,’ should treat anti-Jewish online terror like child porn
On Thursday, a federal judge in New York dismissed two lawsuits that sought to hold Facebook liable for allegedly providing a platform for terrorists.
The case was brought by two groups of plaintiffs, one a group of 20,000...