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Andrew Silow-CarrollThe Jewish Week |
In June, the writer Lore Segal, who had started hospice at her home in Manhattan, sent an email to her friends. “I am not sad or angry or afraid,”...
You might be forgiven for never having heard of the worst anti-Jewish riot in American history. It happened on the Lower East Side over a century...
The trauma of Oct. 7 and the war that has raged since dominated the thoughts of Jewish opinion writers in 2024, and the essays JTA published in its...
“A Complete Unknown,” the new Bob Dylan biopic set in the early 1960s, ends years before the singer’s controversial “gospel” period....
Last December, in a column about the Jewish books of 2023 , I predicted that “next year’s list will include a slew of books dealing with the...
As head of the nonprofit Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law , Kenneth Marcus was early — critics would say premature — in using...
In October of 2023, weeks after the Hamas attacks on Israel, Columbia University’s brand-new president, Minouche Shafik, asked Nicholas Lemann,...
In the 1970s, my parents and all the Jewish parents I knew had what I came to call the Jewish Bookshelf. On it sat “The Source” by James Michener,...
A fter stepping down as chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary in the spring of 2020, Arnold Eisen found himself with the time and...
Mel Brooks, who mocked Adolf Hitler in his 1967 black comedy “The Producers,” has always made the case for satire as a weapon against tyranny....
The leader of one Jewish nonprofit described Donald Trump’s return to the presidency as “terrifying.” Another called it a “serious setback.”...
Last month, clergy from 15 faith communities in Northern Virginia — Jewish, Evangelical, Mainline Protestant and Muslim — gathered at a local park...
“Turn your anxiety into action.” The phrase — which if not a translation of a Yiddish expression might as well be — was the message of an...
In 2021, the Orthodox Union declined to put its kosher certification on Impossible Pork, even though similarly vegan “Impossible” foods — its...
In 2001, Yom Kippur fell on Sept. 26, two weeks after the terror attacks that brought down the World Trade Center. By then, the major denominations...
Before Oct. 7, there was Aug. 24. On that date in 1929, “3,000 Muslim men armed with swords, axes, and daggers marched through the Jewish...
When I spoke on Thursday to the Israeli writer Etgar Keret, who was in New York as part of a two-week speaking tour, he described himself as “...
A haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, leader once joked to me that “few people leave Orthodoxy, but every one of them writes a book about it.” It was a...
Joshua Leifer suspected that his new book about the history of American Jewish identity might challenge some on the pro-Palestinian left, but he...
Joshua Leifer suspected that his new book about the history of American Jewish identity might challenge some on the pro-Palestinian left, but he...
Like many Jews after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, Adam Kirsch was stunned by the number of activists and intellectuals who celebrated the...
Years before “The Power Broker” started appearing on the shelves of every journalist giving a Zoom interview , I would enlighten (my wife would...
In the late 1990s, I would joke that my family and I lived on “Planet Yitz.” Our children attended SAR Academy , the co-ed, educationally...
“It has been said that the Weimar Republic died twice,” Timothy Ryback writes. “It was murdered, and it committed suicide.” In his new book,...
In a 1974 novel by the Jewish writer Wallace Markfield, a character quips, “The time is at hand when the wearing of prayer shawl and skullcap will...
“We honeymooned at Kutsher’s in late October 1968,” Barbara Gelman recalled in an oral history for the Borscht Belt Museum in 2019. “When we...