How people across the globe are discussing social distancing
Translators and lexicographers are working overtime as new virus-related terms enter our daily vocabulary.
Why Trump’s ‘foreign virus’ speech is as dangerous as coronavirus itself
The idea that outsiders or foreigners are both dangerous — and dangerous to health — is straight out of the Nazi playbook.
From an Israeli master, one final gift
Ronit Matalon’s novella is very short, very fast — and very Israeli.
Why ‘Good News’ from Sanders sounds like bad news to so many Jews
A discomfort with evasiveness is arguably the essence of Judaism.
From Hungary — wild poems of Hasidic rabbis and brutal murderers
Hungarian poet Szilárd Borbély’s “Final Matters” forces readers to question pre-conceived ideas of victim and tormentors.
Why Ladino will rise again
Rumors of the language’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.
Why we have to keep talking about Monsey — a letter from my hometown
I found myself barricading my parents’ front door with chairs. We had just heard that a knife-wielding man was at large.
News Flash For Rudy Giuliani: Jews Don’t Go To Church
In eye-opening remarks, Rudy Giuliani suggests that he’s more Jewish than a Holocaust survivor.
Is The West Suffering From Cultural Dementia?
Are we getting too old to notice how quickly we are declining?
Happy Ladino Day — How To Celebrate An Endangered Language
“In the last 100 years, the number of native Ladino speakers has declined rapidly.”
