A professor at the University of Houston and the Women’s Institute of Houston, Robert Zaretsky is also a culture columnist at the Forward.
Robert Zaretsky
By Robert Zaretsky
-
Culture In Paris, a march against antisemitism draws wide support — even, some might say, from antisemites
Marine Le Pen and her Rassemblement National party drew more than a few raised eyebrows as they marched against antisemitism
-
Culture The U.S. has called for a ‘humanitarian pause’ in the war against Hamas — what, if anything, does that mean?
The word 'pause' has a different connotation than 'cease-fire' and its definition is elusive
-
Culture For Israel, a predicament that would be familiar to the authors of Greek tragedy
As with Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Israel confronts a story where no happy ending is possible
-
Culture Why so many people call the Oct. 7 massacre a ‘pogrom’ — and what they miss when they do so
Yosef Yerushalmi would have had a lot to say about our tendency to fit new horrors into old patterns
-
Culture In Galveston, Texas, a refuge for Jews escaping pogroms — and perhaps a lesson for today’s ‘migrant crisis’
For Jewish immigrants, Galveston was once 'the Ellis Island of the West'
-
Culture In a France riven by terrorism, why history (and one particular Jewish historian) still matters
Marc Bloch would have understood the irony of the threats issued at the school bearing his name
-
Culture As in 1940 France, Israel’s fortified border protected only a false sense of security
As Hamas terrorists crossed the divide, they recalled the time Germany breached the Maginot Line
-
Opinion How Netanyahu exploited the politics of fear in a country that now fears for its survival
The catastrophic events have befallen an Israel that was divided, distracted and demoralized
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Culture A shocking true story of Mexico’s Jewish community comes to Netflix
- 2
Opinion Israel deported me for helping West Bank Palestinians. I won’t give up on a peaceful future for the country I love
- 3
Culture Hey, Irving — why are there so many Jews named Irving?
- 4
Culture In the most talked-about Epstein File exchange, a lesson in Yiddish
In Case You Missed It
-
Culture How Black music brought me closer to Judaism
-
Opinion In ‘Nuremberg,’ a potent warning about our current politics of denial
-
Fast Forward Trump says he and Mamdani ‘didn’t discuss’ NYC mayor-elect’s vow to arrest Netanyahu during congenial meeting
-
Yiddish ווידעאָ: משהלע אַלפֿאָנסאָ רעדט וועגן נײַ ביכל פּרץ־מעשׂיות פֿאַר סטודענטןVIDEO: Moishele Alfonso on the new book of I. L. Peretz stories for students
דאָס ביכל נעמט אַרײַן אַ גלאָסאַר, שמועס־פֿראַגעס און קלאַנג־רעקאָרדירונגען פֿון די דערציילונגען.
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
