Popping New York’s Jewish Bubble

By Jonathan Katz September 9, 2014

I grew up in the New York area: capital of the world, city of no rival, the Fourth Rome (defeating the Third, and there shall be no Fifth). True, I could note that this place – city and suburbs thereof – is overconfident, maddeningly arrogant, and rude to a horrifying degree. Yet it was a…

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Jews in Small Places

By Ben Sales December 8, 2009

A dog in Montana speaks Hebrew. That could have been the first sentence of a recent NYTimes article that used a vignette about an ex-IDF German shepherd living in Helena as the lead-in to a story about the small but surviving Jewish population in the Treasure State. The article spent perhaps an inordinate amount of…

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