And could the story of the Tower of Babel actually reflect a dim folk-memory of its breakup?
Focusing on America’s failures to save more Jews in the Holocaust unintentionally strengthens the forces that would threaten Jews today. Here’s how.
“Oh, just some words that my family always says when we enter a church.”
In Israel and in traditional communities, life and liturgy don’t run away from hardship. Most American Jews prefer to think on the brighter side, but that comes at a high cost.
He did. A recent book is a damning polemic against him and also against America’s most politically connected Jewish leader. Yet it’s hard to imagine things ending differently.
It’s not why you think.
As a powerful new exhibit shows, the 16th president felt a close connection to the Jewish people. Why?
Many are sure that one of Judaism’s central events never happened. Evidence, some published here for the first time, suggests otherwise.
Fifty years on, no work by or about Jews has won American hearts so thoroughly. So what’s my problem?