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Andrew Silow-CarrollThe Jewish Week |
On a Saturday in January I went to Shabbat services in the morning and the New York City Ballet in the evening. By which I mean, maybe Timothée...
When J Street, the liberal pro-Israel lobby, met last weekend in Washington for its annual policy conference, it had to scramble to adjust to a joint...
The recent survey conducted by the Jewish Federations of North America on American Jews’ attitudes toward Israel and Zionism has sparked more than...
The newest Jewish Federations of North America survey has already generated its share of anxious headlines: Only 37% of American Jews say they...
Beth Berkowitz was 12 years old, sitting at Shabbat dinner at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires, when she noticed something she could not unsee: tiny...
I remember being freaked out, and fascinated, by my parents’ copy of Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales. It featured these especially lurid...
In January 2011, I wrote my first entry in a five-year diary. It seems I watched “No Country for Old Men” and had “anxiety over … board...
A new exhibit at the New York Historical, “The Recordings: Voices from the ‘Shoah’ Tapes,” begins with a statement from Louise Mirrer, the...
Jonathan Freedland didn’t set out to write a guidebook to resistance. He was researching the story of Rudolf Vrba, the young Jewish escapee from...
It was a scandal right out of a Philip Roth novel: Days after the publication in 2021 of his long-awaited biography of Roth, author Blake Bailey was...
Sarah Hurwitz calls her first book, “ Here All Along,” a “love letter” to Jewish tradition. Describing a journey begun when she worked as a...
As Sukkot and the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks approached, I received separate emails from two different Jewish organizations with what to me was...
In December 2023, Pamela Nadell, a professor of Jewish history at American University, testified alongside the presidents of Harvard, the...
It’s been a year. The war on Hamas rages on. Forty-eight hostages, alive and dead, remain in captivity. Israel scored notable victories in its...
On stage last Sunday at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the comedian Alex Edelman told a Jewish joke that he said he once read in an academic...
When Samuel Freedman published “ Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry ” in August 2000, he described a community torn...
For 48 years, until he moved to Israel earlier this year, Rabbi Yosef Blau was the “m ashgiach ruchani ” at Yeshiva University, a revered figure...
After weeks of mounting pressure on Israel to address reports of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with longtime allies lining up to condemn the...
Jon Stewart hosted writer Peter Beinart on “The Daily Show” Monday night, for a conversation in which the two Jewish liberals agreed that the war...
I’m reading a new novel by an Israeli author that has nothing to do with the war in Gaza, or any current crisis for that matter. I can’t tell...
An amateur film critic named Evan gave the new “Superman” movie five out of five stars. Writing on the Letterboxd platform , they praised the...
Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to call is Jonathan Sarna. Jews and the Civil War ? Sarna knows where the...
The late singer-songwriter Meir Ariel had a hit song that Israelis tend to invoke at times of crisis: “Avarnu et Par’o, Na’avor Gam et Zeh” ...
Ana Levy-Lyons was in her 20s when she found out she was Jewish. During her childhood in Tenafly, New Jersey, her family never spoke about what her...
Miri Bar-Halpern and Jaclyn Wolfman don’t use the term “gaslighting” in their paper on Jewish trauma after Oct. 7, but they might as well have....
Steven Spielberg had already donated money to the Yiddish Book Center when he asked if the center’s founder, Aaron Lansky, might fly out to Los...
Following the fatal shooting last week of two employees of the Israeli embassy outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. on May 21, Rabbi...
Last Tuesday night, the author and podcaster Dan Senor told an enthusiastic crowd at New York’s 92nd Street Y that despite a rising tide of...
Has David Denby written about an American Jewish golden age precisely at the moment it is ending? In his new book “Eminent Jews,” Denby...
Growing up in London, almost everything Rachel Cockerell knew about the British Jewish writer Israel Zangwill could be summed up in three words:...
This again? Having grown up in the years after Nostra Aetate – the Vatican document rejecting the traditional accusation that the Jews were...
George Orwell disliked peace propaganda as much as he disliked war propaganda. Like war propaganda, he wrote, peace propaganda “ concentrates on...
“All of my books are the same book,” said Dara Horn, the author of seven novels and the 2021 essay collection, “People Love Dead Jews,” which...
Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired the book, “Sons and...
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...
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