By Mira Fox, The Forward
• Published August 15, 2022
Are Trump’s most rabid supporters getting into Jewish mysticism?
If a new viral clip from “The Daily Show” is any indication, the answer appears to be yes.
In the clip, a woman in a flower crown at a MAGA rally in Wisconsin tells “Daily...
Madison Hahamy, Hey Alma
• Published August 12, 2022
Growing up in a heavily Jewish suburb near Chicago meant running between multiple bar mitzvah services each weekend. It meant attending a public school that gave us Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and sometimes even the first days of Passover off because so...
(JTA) – Former President Donald Trump wanted his military advisors to be more like “the German generals in World War II,” according to a new book about the Trump presidency that quotes from his administration’s top personnel.
Trump reportedly...
“We have the meats.”
Ever wonder who the “we” is behind that Arby’s slogan? The answer is Forrest and Leroy Raffel, Jewish brothers from New Castle, Pennsylvania. While the Raffel brothers were certainly not the only Jewish creative giants...
Fifty years after Palestinian terrorists murdered 11 members of the Israeli delegation to the 1972 Munich Olympics, German handball player Klaus Langhoff, who was right across the street, recalls the horrific events.
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published July 26, 2022
The St. Louis Jewish Light has been serving the St. Louis Jewish Community since 1947 when the first issue of the St. Louis Light, the predecessor publication of the St. Louis Jewish Light, which first appeared on Feb. 20.
The St....
By Yaron Niski and Danny Liber
• Published July 25, 2022
Notorious terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, aka “Carlos the Jackal,” recalls how he joined the PFLP after getting expelled from university and abducted dozens of ministers at the behest of Libyan revolutionary Muammar Gaddafi, only to be betrayed by the leader he held in high regard.
Joshua Holzer, Westminster College
• Published July 25, 2022
In the late 1800s, the city of Białystok – which was once Polish, then Prussian, then Russian, and is today again part of Poland – was a hub of diversity, with large numbers of Poles, Germans, Russians and Yiddish-speaking Ashkanazi Jews. Each group...
By Leah Garrett, The Forward
• Published July 25, 2022
There’s a moment midway through “The Offer” when enraged film executive Robert Evans (Matthew Goode), a senior executive at Paramount Pictures, demands to know why Al Ruddy (Miles Teller), the producer of an as-yet-unknown movie called “The Godfather,”...
Madadh Richey, Brandeis University
• Published July 15, 2022
What is a “monster”? For most Americans, this word sparks images of haunted houses and horror movies: scary creations, neither human nor animal, and usually evil.
But it can be helpful to think about “monsters” beyond these knee-jerk images....
By Louis Keene, The Forward
• Published July 14, 2022
Almost every night for the past few months, a nondescript crew of yeshiva bochurs has fanned out across New York City, armed with nothing more than MetroCards and buckets to stand on.
The following morning, the familiar visage of Rabbi Menachem Mendel...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (JTA) — When they flew out of this country for Israel three decades ago, Askabo Meshiha’s family left something valuable behind. Unlike many other Ethiopian Jews who were airlifted to Israel in 1991, they didn’t say goodbye...
