Jewish History
Jews and Tattoos: Navigating a new landscape
Once a month at our family Shabbat service we ask families to submit questions in advance in what, in lieu ...
Religion and Politics: Already Mixed
It’s Israel week on the Rabbis Without Borders blog. My colleagues Ben Greenberg and Alana Suskin discussed debates among university ...
The Poetry of Jewish Black Identity
I became Bar Mitzvah on April 20th, 2002, the 130th anniversary of Hitler’s birth. My dad’s side of the family ...
Lithuania’s Past and Present
In my last blog post, I recounted the background of Yiddish linguist Dovid Katz, who has been reporting on troubling manifestations of ...
The Shameful Distinction of Lithuania
I first came across the writings of Dovid Katz while researching what happened to my relatives in Lithuania in the ...
Terror in Afula, Seen from Afar
A numinous dream, last Wednesday:I am on Kibbutz Ein Dor, near the city of Afula in Northern Israel, visiting my ...
The Burden of Silence
I was born in Baltimore in 1954, nine years after the Shoah, one of signature events of the 20th—or any—century. That ...
On Coming Together Over Brokenness
November 9, 2013, marks the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass.” It is the night many point ...
How My Memoir Convinced the NY Post to Advocate for Israel’s Destruction
My recently-published memoir, What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife? , chronicles ...
LivingSocial’s Antisemitic Halloween Party
Soo looks like I will never again be perusing LivingSocial for a teeth-whitening deal ever again. The popular flash-sale website ...
History EXPLODES in Virginia! (Literally)
The 270-plus community histories in the ISJL’s Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities contain countless stories of Jewish-owned businesses. Often, these ...
A Moment of Kindness
Whenever I tell anyone that mother was in a German labor camp during World War II, they assume she was ...