Deborah F. Blum is a writer producing a documentary about her uncle Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studios and savior of German Jews.
Deborah F. Blum
By Deborah F. Blum
-
Community Does Israel’s Macho Culture Protect Sexual Predators?
I was a victim of sexual assault in Israel, and also had numerous incidents of being cornered and aggressively “flirted” with in the United States. Travelling in Israel, as a wayward art school drop-out, at the age of twenty-three, I accepted a ride from two young truck drivers early on a Saturday morning. I was…
-
Community The Westboro Challenge
When fringe groups seek to challenge our faith, how should we respond? Should we engage — or walk away? The fundamentalist group Westboro Baptist appeared right on time across the street from the modern Orthodox school where my older daughter graduated. And I don’t want to disappoint anyone, but I did not throw eggs. Demonstrators…
-
Community BREAKING: Westboro Baptist Church To Protest Outside Modern Orthodox LA School
I just got word that an anti-Semitic, anti-LBGT group, the Westboro Baptist Church, plans to hold a protest outside a Modern Orthodox high school in our area on Monday morning, February 27. The school is called Shalhevet, which means small flame in Hebrew. It educates kids with a religious and secular education. It certainly isn’t…
Most Popular
- 1
Forverts in English A Yiddish word I never expected to see on a license plate
- 2
Opinion Anti-Zionism forced us to withdraw from Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
- 3
Opinion The Gaza War is neither a genocide nor a mission — it’s Revisionist Zionism in action
- 4
Opinion Young Jews are fleeing Jewish institutions: Here’s how to keep them
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Poll: Most New Yorkers want to end Gaza conflict but say campus protests crossed line into antisemitism
-
News Israeli teachers who criticize the war have been yanked from the classroom — and thrown in jail
-
Opinion Israel made a terrible tactical blunder in targeting the AP — one it’s made many times before
-
Culture Is it too soon for an exhibit about the massacre at the Nova Music Festival, or is it just the right time?