Tag: Jews
A rabbi’s Christmas wishes
To date, I have experienced more than 70 Christmas seasons in my lifetime. having spent all the previous ones as an “outsider.” I admit to a life-long appreciation of the Yule season’s message and...
The other ‘Iron Wall’ article
This week a century and one year ago, Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s article “The Iron Wall” was published in the Russian-language weekly, Razsvet, on Nov. 4 in Berlin. So famous has it become that last month, The New...
Catch the Holocaust before it disappears
If you’re a Jew looking for sympathy in these sucker-punch days of hyper-antisemitism, find a way to transport yourself back to the early 1990s, a time when Holocaust memory—“Schindler’s List”; the opening of the...
Ebon Moss-Bachrach in ‘The Bear’ wins Emmy for Best Supporting Actor
The performance of Ebon Moss-Bachrach as divorced father Richie in the TV series “The Bear” has so far collected the two top entertainment awards of the year.
On Monday, Moss-Bachrach, who is 46 and Jewish, received an...
‘New York Times’ to Jews: Forget thy right hand
Marc Tracy's New York Times article on Jan. 14 refers to "left-wing" Jews and a "left-wing" Jewish publication, and a "far-right" Israeli government and its "extreme-right ministers." The avian metaphors add up to the culture reporter to...
Daniel Jadue on supremacism, Nazi ideology and a ‘chosen people’
If you thought the sordid row in 2017 over the contention that women who support Israel have no place in the feminist movement was a low point for the far left, you might perhaps...
Brooklyn restaurant offers seafood menu labeled ‘from river to sea’
According to a New York City restaurateur, a common chant regularly bellowed at anti-Israel rallies around the world means “just simply freedom and rights to the Palestinian people between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea.”
Abdul Elenani,...
Is Israel the most dangerous place to be a Jew?
Israel has long presented itself as the guarantor of Jewish security—but can we really say that this is true in the wake of Oct. 7?
Moreover, are we even sure that it was true before?
And...
Why the images of Hamas prisoners sparked outrage
I was poised to go on a live broadcast of WION, an English-language Indian television network, last week to discuss the war against Hamas. But before my turn to speak came, I was startled by...
Trump slams ‘liberal Jews who voted to destroy America & Israel’
Former U.S. President Donald Trump attacked American Jewish voters who supported Joe Biden in the 2020 election, in a Rosh Hashanah greeting posted Monday to his Truth Social media platform.
"Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted...