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Apocalypse Now: Preparing for the Potential End of Jewish Statehood

By Jonathan Katz | June 25, 2014

Attention: I am doing something that is heretical across much of the Jewish spectrum. Very heretical – for two-state JStreet-ers, for your right-wing grandma at synagogue Kiddush, and certainly for anyone remotely associated with StandWithUs and other organizations dedicated to apologetics for the Occupation. I am preparing for the potential end of Israel as…

Jewish ‘Avengers’; Maurice Sendak passes at 83; Coalition governments, and more [Required Reading]

By pkessler | May 8, 2012

Jewish ‘Avengers’ [JTA] As the latest round of superhero adaptations makes its way into theaters, JTA harks back to its Jewish roots, which this time, go further than the creators. The Avengers was a handle taken on by a group of Jewish resistance fighters in Lithuania during World War Two. “So as you’re chewing on…