A Holocaust Survivor’s Visit to Her Childhood Home Transports Her to the Past
Ahead of the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht, Eve Kugler, 90, visited her hometown of Halle, Germany, and recalls the horrifying period that led to her family fleeing for their lives.
The Crucial But Underrated Gift of Being ‘A People Apart’
Many liberal Jews don’t want to know about Jewish exceptionalism because it runs smack into the cardinal precepts of liberal dogma—universalism, the rejection of cultural singularity and the eradication of difference as “discrimination.”
A Mezuzah on Every Door
My friend got married this year, a year of many challenges. It’s been a special journey for her, so I got her a special gift: a mezuzah.
California Needs to Pick Holocaust Education or Anti-Semitism
Gov. Gavin Newsom cannot simultaneously push for a curriculum that teaches about the perils of the Shoah and give voice to the latest trends in Jew-hatred.
Hidden Heroes
I’ve read many great books, but it’s rare that I have the urge to thank the author. In the case of “Hidden Heroes,” I wanted to do so on two levels
The Systemic Failure of Israel’s Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria
While I would like to believe that those who who serve in the body established in 1981 are good people, the entire mechanism is rotten to its core.
The Latest Target of Anti-Israel Academics? The Negev
The same leftist activists who demand that Israel expel “illegal” Jewish settlers simultaneously insist that Israel not expel Bedouin squatters.
A Silent Arab Spring is Sprouting … in Israel
Good news is never that exciting. It’s always more dramatic to ring the alarm about one problem or another. Calling Israel an “apartheid” state, as Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) did recently, is a good example. It’s so inflammatory that it’s guaranteed to attract maximum attention, both from critics and supporters of the Jewish state. I […]
On Visible and Invisible Jews
We all know that raw prejudice among Jews against those who are visibly Jewish—that they are loud, rude, unwashed, contemptuous towards outsiders and all the rest of that baggage—is our community’s dirty secret.
The Triumph and Tragedy of Jewish Self-Liberation
Ruth Wisse’s new memoir tells of the flowering of Jewish literature and of witnessing the miracle of Israel. But she is just as interested in the revival of anti-Semitism and Jewish indifference or complicity in the war on their own people.
