Moment Debate | ‘Building a wall is fool’s gold’
America was conceived as a haven of refuge—Thomas Paine says so in Common Sense—for people fleeing from religious and political repression and violence all over the world. He said we would be an “asylum for mankind,” and he did not mean an insane asylum
After ICE Arrest, Baltimore Jews Ask: Can We Help?
“You just kind of show up to this office, almost like a doctor's appointment, but you don’t know if at the end of the appointment you’re going to be able to go back to your family or if you’re going to go to prison.”
Israel and I: A Love/Hate Relationship
The Donald Trump victory is not only highly distressing to me as an American; it is troublesome because it portends to render peace in my beloved Israel more distant than ever.
Catholic Candidates, Voters and Contraception
By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
From the announcement of President Obama’s controversial new contraception policy, to Rick Santorum’s unexpected triple-win on Tuesday—Catholics have determined this week’s news...
Why the Israeli Ad Campaign Matters
by Erica Shaps
Last week, the Israeli Ministry of Immigration Absorption’s now-cancelled ad campaign directed at bring Israeli expatriates in American back home took the American...
Jane Ziegelman on Food and the American Story
97 Orchard, by Jane Ziegelman, tells the story of five immigrant families living on Manhattan's Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century....
Lessons for Germany’s Turks from France’s Jews
By Symi Rom-Rymer
In the midst of cheering crowds and booming music at an auditorium in Düsseldorf, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Turkish...
Lessons for Germany's Turks from France's Jews
By Symi Rom-Rymer
In the midst of cheering crowds and booming music at an auditorium in Düsseldorf, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Turkish...
People of the Book: Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora
By Symi Rom-Rymer
The story of Jewish Eastern European immigration is a familiar one. Even if one never had the chance to know their relatives from...