Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published November 29, 2022
(JTA) — For his 2021 book “How the Word Is Passed,” winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, poet and journalist Clint Smith explored the landscape of American memory — specifically how the history of slavery is explained,...
By Jonathan S. Tobin, Jewish News Service
• Published November 28, 2022
(JNS) If pro-Israel Republicans think former President Donald Trump will apologize or make amends in any way for choosing to have a public dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort home with two notorious antisemites, they haven’t been paying attention to how...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published November 21, 2022
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In the late 1970s, Spoede School let out at exactly 3:30 p.m. We would line up in the back and board our school buses for the ride home. I was on Bus #3, and Mr. Matt was our bus driver. Matt knew that he had exactly 30 minutes to get...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published November 21, 2022
(JTA) — A few days after the comedian Dave Chappelle appeared to justify the never-ending appeal of Jewish conspiracy theories, this sentence appeared in the New York Times: “Bankman-Fried is already drawing comparisons to Bernie Madoff.”
I’ll...
By Edward “Coach” Weinhaus
• Published November 16, 2022
Jews grouped together to form the state of Israel. They (we) run the place. It is not crazy to think or say that.
It is “delusional” to even think that “the Jews run Hollywood” even if there are “a lot of Jews there…I mean a lot.” And...
(JTA) — Last week saw Dave Chappelle deliver a brilliant monologue on “Saturday Night Live” addressing the antisemitism controversies surrounding Kanye West and Kyrie Irving.
Unfortunately, “brilliant” doesn’t inherently mean “moral”...
Shuly Rubin Schwartz, JTA
• Published November 14, 2022
(JTA) — Like so many other American Jews from the New York area, I have been eagerly awaiting “I’ll Have What She’s Having,” the new exhibit on the American Jewish deli now on view at the New-York Historical Society. After all, the deli was...
(JTA) — Max Glass, a recent immigrant from Hungary, had an unhappy Civil War.
Tricked out of his enlistment bonus when he joined the Eighth Connecticut Infantry — recent arrivals were soft touches for scam artists — Glass was then “abused...
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
• Published November 9, 2022
(JNS) If Americans thought that the midterm elections would provide a clear picture of their country’s future political direction, they woke up the next morning as confused as ever. The Democrats may have won the expectations game as the “red wave”...
By Amy Fenster Brown, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published November 7, 2022
A sports season just ended for one of my kids. This time it was high school soccer. With several seniors on the team, there’s the sad realization that the roster will be different next fall.
That’s the thing with kids growing up -- they’ll...
(JTA) — A powerful revival of “Parade,” the 1998 Broadway musical about the 1915 lynching of the Jewish factory manager Leo Frank by a Georgia mob, is wrapping up a short-term engagement at New York’s City Center. The show is stirring and moving...
By Rabbi Amy Feder, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published November 4, 2022
This week marks the 30th anniversary of my becoming a bat mitzvah at Temple Israel. I’m a bit embarrassed to say that my memories of the event are rather cloudy.
I remember my Laura Ashley dress with the row of pink bows at the waist, I remember...
