Who Owns the Holocaust?

By Evan Goldstein March 10, 2015

  I’ve got this list. On it, I jot down the names of authors I mean to read when I have the time, and at the top of this list is James Baldwin. Knowing little about him, I somewhat absent-mindedly opened a 1967 essay Baldwin wrote in the New York Times Magazine. I was speechless:…

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Mourning the American-Jewish Political Middle

By Amram Altzman August 18, 2014

  If nothing else, the over-discussed Pew Report from almost a year ago (almost a year ago — and here we are, still quoting it like it’s the Bible itself!) heralded the death of the American-Jewish religious middle. This summer’s Operation Protective Edge seems to have heralded the death of the American-Jewish political middle, as…

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Jewish Tokenism and Tolerance: On Liberals, Narratives, and Costa Rica

By Jonathan Katz February 5, 2014

Zach Cohen’s New Voices article was not exactly the most adulatory of Costa Rica. His piece prompted responses: one from Q Costa Rica and two from the Costa Rica Star – an initial piece and a follow-up. These pieces took a largely self-defensive, mocking, and somewhat anti-Semitic tone. Yet at the same time, the pieces…

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Reform rabbi on Israeli council; no Arabic allowed; and more. [Required Reading]

By John Propper May 18, 2012

Reform rabbi added to religious council in Israel [Times of Israel] Mazel tov to the most recent addition to one of the many religious councils in Israel: a position typically held by Orthodox authorities. “Rabbi Alona Lisitsa said she did not feel hostility from the rest of the representatives — all Orthodox — of the local…

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