This Jewish Summer Camp Raised A Palestinian Flag — And Caused A Ruckus
Israel doesn’t ban Palestinian flags, so why should Jewish summer camps — especially when Palestinian visitors are the type we’d want to encourage?
Why Jews Need To Fight Trump On Voting Rights — 53 Years After ‘Mississippi Burning’ Murders
NEW YORK — Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner are about the closest American Jews have to secular saints. The two Jewish civil righ…
‘Jewish Spouses Matter,’ Study Says. Let The Intermarriage Debate Begin Again.
NEW YORK — One of the wisest things ever said about intermarriage came from former Atlantic sports columnist Jake Simpson: “No stat coul…
Why Trump’s Post-London Attack Tweets Are So Chilling
BOCA RATON, Florida — In popular myth, South Florida was ground zero of the Great Email Explosion of 2008. That was the year your great-unc…
The Famed Jewish Doctor Who Survived The Titanic — Then Took His Own Life
No one knows the exact number of Jews who were sailing on the Titanic, which struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Europe to New York on this date in 1912. One history of the ship’s sinking suggests hundreds of Jews…
Why Can’t This White House Get The Holocaust Right?
We interrupt this Passover to bring you two news bulletins: Bashar Assad is worse than Hitler. The “Soup Nazi” was almost a real Nazi.
Are Mike Pence’s ‘Marriage Rules’ Anti-Women — Or Pro-Faith?
— I am a huge fan of monogamy. My wife and I have been married for — well, let’s just say we met in high school (we didn’t get together until after college, but I was trying to avoid saying “a long time”). I took it personally when Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman announced…
Trump, The Jews And The Political Weaponization Of Anti-Semitism
Was that so hard? At some point in the past week, it looked like President Donald Trump was never going to use “anti-Semitism” in a sentence. It took a fourth series of hoax bomb threats at JCCs around the country and imprecations from Jewish groups across the ideological spectrum for the president to at…
How Football Junket Fumble Might Just Turn Into A Touchdown For Israel
(JTA) — Almost 30 years ago, the late theater impresario Joe Papp got into hot water when he canceled a scheduled production of a pro-Palestinian play at his flagship Manhattan theater, the Public. Rumors flew at the time that he caved in to pressure from wealthy Jewish donors, but Papp — born Joseph Papirofsky but…
Steve Bannon’s Occasional Embrace of the Jews: A Very Conditional Kind of Love
(JTA) — Reports that White House Svengali Steve Bannon once referred to the American Jewish community as enablers of Islamist jihad revived accusations that the former Breitbart News publisher is an anti-Semite. On its face the accusation, like the oft-repeated charge that Breitbart itself is an anti-Semitic news site, is weak. Bannon’s point about jihad’s…
