Sarah Wildman
By Sarah Wildman
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Fast Forward Jimmy Carter, former president who brokered first Arab-Israeli peace accord, is dead at 100
The president who secured the Egyptian-Israeli peace accord in 1978 went on to become the target of vitriol for his warnings that Israel was headed toward apartheid
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Opinion A wakeup call: You are your brother’s keeper
Previous Article Next Article Kol yisrael aravim ze baze — all of Israel is responsible for one another. Of course, in the era of the current plague, we might better say kol anashim aravim ze baze — all people are responsible for one another. We are responsible for wearing a mask, for ensuring that those…
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News For a family that faced a medical crisis before the country’s, a lesson in radical kindness
On the Friday after my daughter, Orli, received a new liver, in a new city, a doctor appeared in the doorway bearing a small sack. He was, it turned out, the husband of one my 8th grade Camp Ramah counselors—and also the head of the medical ICU. In the bag was… Shabbat, a vegetarian soup,…
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Life After Pittsburgh, Reclaiming Sacred Space
My older daughter asked me if we were going to be bombed. We were walking into a Brooklyn synagogue. It was a Saturday morning one week after eleven Jews were killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue last October by an alleged white nationalist. I promised her we would not. Then I eyed a large black duffle…
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Culture This May Be the Last Chance To Tell The Story of These Survivors
Ari Rath met me at the door of his friend Saleh Turujman’s apartment. It was a brilliantly sunny Friday morning in Washington, D.C., but the men were tucked up inside this eighth-floor space with views overlooking the Jefferson Memorial. Images and artifacts of Jerusalem were on every flat surface, every wall, every shelf. Rath is…
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Culture For Survivor’s Grandson, Holocaust Still Reverberates in ‘East-West Street’
East-West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity” By Philippe Sands Knopf, $32.50 448 pages At the beginning of Philippe Sands’s tour de force “East West Street: On the Origins of ‘Genocide’ and ‘Crimes Against Humanity,’” Sands offers a quote from the French psychoanalyst Nicolas Abraham. “What haunts are not the dead,…
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Art How Berlin Laid Groundwork for Holocaust With Theft of Jewish Property
When Dr. Joanne Intrator’s father, Gerhard Intrator, was dying, he had one wish: that his daughter fight for the property the family had been forced to abandon when they fled the Nazis. True to her word, Intrator, a psychiatrist based on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, set out for Germany to lay claim to the buildings…
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News Jewish Group Plans To Protest Donald Trump’s AIPAC Speech
Donald Trump’s appearance at the upcoming AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington has at least one Jewish group planning to protest. The group of professionals and clergy, which calls itself “Come Together Against Hate,” says that Trump and his hate speech have no place at the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. “We…
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