(JTA) — In an essay for JTA on Michael Chabon’s intermarriage views, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Steven M. Cohen and Jack Wertheimer describe a “left camp” that argues for greater acceptance, welcoming and inclusion of the intermarried and their family...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Supreme Court’s much-anticipated decision in the case of the Colorado baker who was penalized because he refused, on religious grounds, to create a cake for a same-gender wedding ceremony must have disappointed both sides.The...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Anthony Bourdain was quick – and often willing – to publicly offer his own flaws.“Until 44 years of age, I never had any kind of savings account,” Bourdain said in 2017. “[I] always owed money. I’d always been selfish and...
Counterpoint to commentary Henry Schvey’s May 30 commentary, “Trump ends role as honest Mideast mediator,” is completely ridiculous and totally biased.First of all, I truly do sympathize with the loss of so many human lives; even if the latter...
The mortar attacks and cross-border infiltrations from Gaza should serve as a reminder that Hamas may be in charge of the Gaza Strip, but it has a junior partner that is dangerous and capricious, and that it refuses to disarm: Islamic Jihad.There is a...
I’ve been wrong about Donald Trump a lot.I totally dismissed him, for example, when he announced on June 16, 2015, that he was running for president.During the decade I lived and worked in New York, Trump was just a press-manipulating, bogus mogul of...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 31, 2018
“At any event, all I can do with my story is tell it. And tell it and tell it.” —Philip Roth in “My Life as a Man”Acclaimed Jewish writer Philip Roth’s recent passing hit me like a death in the family. Like many American Jewish males of...
ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 31, 2018
“Has anybody here seen my old friend Martin? He freed a lot of people, but it seems the good die young. But I just look around and he’s gone.” — Lyric from “Abraham, Martin and John,” by Dion DiMucci
It is hard to believe that...
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...
