This piece originally appeared in Alma, 70 Faces Media’s feminist Jewish culture site. Content warning: anti-Japanese slur.The term “Jewish American Princess” has been debated within Jewish communities for as long as it has existed. Many bemoan...
(Israel21c) -- Israel’s Independence Day is fast approaching on April 15, and over here at ISRAEL21c we are more than ready for a proper celebration – one that includes a barbecue with people we have not seen for the past year.And yet, since health...
Having devoted fully half of my adult life to professional and lay leadership of the Anti-Defamation League’s work in our region, it is time for me to pursue other challenges in the arena of social and community justice. It is a departure laced with...
Adam G. Klein
Associate Professor of Media Studies, Pace University
• Published April 6, 2021
One in four American millennials believe the Holocaust was exaggerated or entirely made up, according to a recent national survey that sought to find out what young adults know about the genocide of nearly 6 million Jews at the hands of Nazis some 80...
Edward B. Westermann, Regents Professor of History, Texas A&M-San Antonio
• Published April 6, 2021
In December 1943, a 20-year-old named Ruth Elias arrived in a cattle car at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. She was assigned to Block 6 in the family camp, a barracks that housed young women and the camp’s male orchestra, an ensemble...
Jennifer Rich
Professor of Sociology, Rowan University
• Published April 6, 2021
Whenever there’s an analysis or discussion about how much people know about the Holocaust, the focus is often on what they don’t know.For instance, a 2018 survey of 1,350 people age 18 and older found that 11% of U.S. adults and 22% of millennials...
This story originally appeared on Kveller, 70 Faces Media’s Jewish entertainment site.Clothes hound that I am — arf-arf — Women’s History Month takes my mind to Coco Chanel, the woman who made fashion history back in the 1920s. Chanel taught...
This essay originally appeared on Alma, 70 Faces Media’s feminist Jewish culture site.Had you asked me 20 years ago, 10 years ago, even last year (truthfully, last month) if I’d ever quote the Torah in a piece I was writing, I probably would have...
This story originally appeared on Alma.comFrom her corkscrew curls to eccentrically patterned dresses, Valerie Frizzle was the science teacher we always wished we had. Her role as the mystical, happy-go-lucky leader who took her class on field trips...
RACHEL BRAY-SPEZIA, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published March 30, 2021
Getting pregnant with my son Wolfie wasn’t the easiest. We had to employ several reproductive medical treatments, medications and procedures. Ultimately, I did have a healthy and successful pregnancy after a family donated their remaining frozen embryos...
By Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose
• Published March 30, 2021
This Shabbat, we find ourselves celebrating the 7th Day of the Festival of Pesach and preparing for this week’s special reading of the account of Kriat Yam Suf, the crossing of the Sea of Reeds, which tradition posits took place on this day. And yet,...
Sports star takes deserved ‘Heat’ for anti-Semitic slur Regarding “NBA fines Meyers Leonard $50,000 for using anti-Semitic slur” (published online March 11, Jewish Light).My congratulations to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver (who is Jewish) for...
