The history of the Jews of Eastern Europe and Russia has a singular place in the Jewish imagination today. To some, it is a dead subject, poisoned by the Holocaust and the lethal anti-Semitism of the 19th and 20th centuries: Either we know everything we need to know about it ...
Who was Rav Kook, the first chief rabbi of Jewish Palestine? Many have tried to understand this complex, charismatic scholar whose embrace of modernism existed side-by-side with strict traditionalism. How to explain his contradictory mixture of tolerance and orthodoxy, nationalism and universalism, mysticism and activism? Kook was a poet, religious ...
For many Jews, slivovitzâthe Eastern European plum brandyâis wrapped in nostalgia, evoking memories of irascible relatives downing fiery shots over Yiddish banter, or the mysterious bottle at the back of your grandmotherâs pantry, revealed only during Passover seders. Over the years, slivovitz has become a distinctly Jewish beverage, one to ...
Illuminating the History of Iranian Jews By Diane M. Bolz Jews have lived in Persia, now Iran, for nearly three ...
The title, Little Failure, is of course ironic. By now, after Gary Shteyngartâs three best-selling comic novels, many travel articles and dozens of interviewsâin which he rarely gives a straight answerâhis Russian Jewish immigrant parents must have forgiven him for not becoming the lawyer or accountant they envisioned. Or have ...
An investigation into the religious roots of the symbols for hugs & kisses. ...
When I was a teenager, there was a legend repeated in the Jewish schools of my hometown. If you somehow manage to get into godless Harvard, donât go. But if, against your rosh yeshiva and rebbeâs advice, you actually go, whatever you do, donât take biblical scholar James Kugelâs class. ...
INDEPENDENT Judaism does not restrict a woman in regard to her choices concerning pregnancy. She has a choice to bear
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Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Fiction // July was Revaâs month to fall apart. She slept through the alarm and ignored her husbandâs attempts to rouse her. She showered sporadically. She added bourbon to her morning coffee. She stopped answering email, her cell phone, the door. She arrived late to the summer ...
By Amy E. Schwartz An American offshoot of the Qatari network makes some watchdogs nervous. Media observers buzzed with consternation
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By Tamara Cofman Wittes The United States needs to accept that the days of one-man rule are gone forever. Three years
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By Marshall Breger How can the Palestinians recognize a Jewish state if Israelis donât know what that means? In 1958,
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