‘Hatikvah,’ and competing hopes
Now that the dust has settled, it may be a good time to take stock. Depending upon which account one read, it was either an outrage or a non-event: At the retirement ceremony for Chief Justice Dorit...
View ArticleThe most unkindest cut of all? A modest proposal for the circumcision crisis
A watch hangs in a shop’s display window. A customer enters the shop and asks the owner, a bearded Jew, the price of the watch. “I don’t sell watches,” replies the Jew. “But you have a watch hanging in...
View Article“Chanoch. Palestine 1944”: A Young German Immigrant Looks at His New Land
Reflections on Passover, the Holocaust, and History in a Series of Artifacts (1) Seventy years ago, on the eve of Passover, April19, 1943, the Nazis began to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto, which, to...
View ArticleMy Father’s Passover Days, Anno 1943-1944. A Forgotten Episode of World War II.
Reflections on Passover, the Holocaust, and History in a Series of Artifacts (2) Seventy years ago, on the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, the Nazis began to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto, which, to...
View ArticleLet My People Go! To High Holy Days Services. For Free.
The “Days of Awe” from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur are a season of introspection, penitence, and reconciliation. Accordingly, I try to restrain an inveterate tendency toward criticism. After all, I...
View ArticleLeaked report: Israel acknowledges Jews in fact Khazars; Secret plan for...
Jerusalem and Zhitomir, 16 March/Adar II 14 (Our Russian and Ukrainian correspondents Hirsh Ostropoler and I. Z. Grosser-Spass also contributed to this story, delayed due to the crisis over the Crimean...
View ArticleOn the Margins of the Holocaust: 70 Years On, High Time to Honor the...
Today, as we again mark the anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, it is high time to recall one small, neglected episode in that immense struggle. This year, Yom HaShoah fell on April 28....
View ArticleYom HaZikaron and Memorial Day: Remembering the Fallen (give me just two...
Every spring, as Israel holds its Day of Remembrance (Yom HaZikaron) and the United States its Memorial Day, I cannot help but compare the two holidays and the way the two countries mark them. I am a...
View ArticleZygielbojm and the Blood Shed (that unites and divides us)
“Did kill himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed,” the Coroner’s report reads, identifying the cause of death as: “Sodium Amatol poison (self administered).” The words are detached and...
View ArticleSightings of Alleged New Israeli Secret Weapon Reported in Run-up to...
Security forces around the world, already on high alert in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo and Kosher supermarket attacks as well as new threats from ISIS terrorists, became edgier still in response to...
View ArticleObama Call to Netanyahu: Speak Loudly and Carry a Big Bat? Gloves On or Off?
For weeks, the news was filled with stories on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long-awaited speech to the US Congress, and then came the election campaign and reaction to his surprise “crushing...
View ArticleYom HaShoah and the survivors: “a heart that is so hard that nothing can...
After the Shoah As we mark Yom HaShoah—Holocaust Memorial Day on the Jewish liturgical and Israeli political calendar—we naturally think first and foremost of the dead, in their millions. But there...
View ArticleIsrael in Nepal: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Like many, I was cheered by the news that aid for victims of the tragic earthquake in Nepal was quick in coming from many quarters, including Israel. But as the saying goes, “no good deed goes...
View ArticleMossad stole my shoe; you can’t make this stuff up
We are all familiar with the expression, “You can’t make this stuff up,” meaning something true but so preposterous–sounding that it seems as if it should be fictitious. Zionists broke into his house...
View ArticleA Haggadah from the Warsaw Ghetto
Reflections on Passover, the Holocaust, and History in a Series of Artifacts (3) Seventy-three years ago, on the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, the Nazis began to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto, which,...
View ArticleChrismukkah? You mean: Weihnukkah. It’s German and over a century old
Dustup over a mashup This year, because Hanukkah begins on Christmas Eve, good-natured talk of hybrid holidays as well as interfaith goodwill is more noticeable than ever in the United States. The...
View ArticleOn the Margins of the Holocaust: 70 Years On, High Time to Honor the...
Today, as we again mark the anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, it is high time to recall one small, neglected episode in that immense struggle. This year, Yom HaShoah fell on April 28....
View ArticleYom HaZikaron and Memorial Day: Remembering the Fallen (give me just two...
Every spring, as Israel holds its Day of Remembrance (Yom HaZikaron) and the United States its Memorial Day, I cannot help but compare the two holidays and the way the two countries mark them. I am a...
View ArticleZygielbojm and the Blood Shed (that unites and divides us)
“Did kill himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed,” the Coroner’s report reads, identifying the cause of death as: “Sodium Amatol poison (self administered).” The words are detached and...
View ArticleSightings of Alleged New Israeli Secret Weapon Reported in Run-up to...
Security forces around the world, already on high alert in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo and Kosher supermarket attacks as well as new threats from ISIS terrorists, became edgier still in response to...
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