AMHERST, Mass. (JTA) — Philip Roth lent to American literature a singular, unapologetic voice to which nothing was sacred. His fiction critiqued everything from fascism to Jewish bourgeois assimilation to political puritanism to Jewish boyhood to the...
I went to Home Depot earlier this week to buy spray paint because I was doing a small project at home and needed silver and gold metallic paint. As I scanned my item at Home Depot, the register stopped and up popped a card with the words “ID” written...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Since 2004, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has engaged in a biennial ritual of obsessive, relentless anti-Israel demonization. The church’s upcoming General Assembly in St. Louis will be no exception.Multiple mainline Protestant...
President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA/Iran deal was the right decision.The notion that we were better off staying in the deal is not supported by Iran’s activity since the agreement. Iran was afforded immediate relief from sanctions and...
My mother, Fryda Bierman, was born in Lodz, Poland. The date of her birth was Dec. 15, 1929, which we later learned was an error. When her birth certificate arrived much later in life, we found out she had been born in January of that year. She refused...
When President Donald Trump announced that he would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the results were entirely predictable: renewed violence and bloodshed in a part of the world where such horrors have been all too common over the 70 years since...
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
• Published May 23, 2018
When a Hamas spokesman acknowledged that 50 out of the 62 Palestinians reported killed during the May 14 assault on Israel’s border with Gaza, that fact alone should have fundamentally altered the debate over what happened. Though the international...
Broad Jewish support for anti-BDS bill The process to pass the Anti-Discrimination Against Israel Act in Missouri has been an adventure from the beginning of the process. Jenny Wolkowitz created a coalition of professional and lay Jewish leaders who...
Imagine, for a moment, you live on a kibbutz in Israel along the border with Gaza within eyesight of the fence separating your home and family, including your three young children, from Gaza.Imagine you awake one morning and look out your kitchen window...
When we were small, we were taught there were “bad words” we should never say. In elementary school we tested them out bit by bit, knowing that our parents and teachers would punish us if they actually heard us using “bad words.” By our teen...
April brought the following headlines regarding the U.S.-North Korea standoff on nuclear weapons: • “Kim Says North Korea Needs No More Nuclear or Long-Range Missile Tests”• “North Korea’s Kim Promised to Open Dismantling of Nuclear Site...
As Hamas continues to exploit protests to foment violence against Israel, finding a way to help the people of Gaza in any meaningful way becomes more and more challenging. All parties interested in bringing change to Gaza need to face the reality that...
