Black Lives Matter Not Just For Americans
The Jews stranded in Ethiopia have been promised authorization to make Aliyah for decades.
August 15, 2022
August 15, 2022
AJC Survey Finds Hatred For Jews Still A Severe Problem
According to a new survey, American Jews are far more likely to see antisemitism as a problem in the United States than non-Jews and are nearly twice as likely to […]
August 15, 2022
Kedem & Kilimanjaro
I‘ve given a few different irreverent answers when people have asked why I’m undertaking this physically demanding (and not cheap) journey to climb Kilimanjaro. If you must know, there’s some […]
August 15, 2022
Amazon Removes ‘Gas the JEWS’ Holiday Tumbler
This story first appeared in the Cleveland Jewish News/cjn.org. Reprinted with permission As late as 9:38 p.m. Nov. 16, customers of Amazon could buy a “generic Jewish wine tumbler” bearing […]
August 11, 2022
Shabbat Weekend In Bulgaria
I prefer not to seem like a dumb American tourist, but I much more prefer not to be called a “Russian.” It took me a day to get a hold […]
April 13, 2022
For High Schoolers, Holocaust Museum Connects History To Today
WASHINGTON — Being in the crowded, confined space of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was uncomfortable for Kevin Smokyday. It wasn’t because of the photos and videos that he saw […]
April 1, 2022
May Their Memories be for a Blessing
Eleven people were murdered in Israel by terrorists marking it as the deadliest time period within Israel since 2006.
March 30, 2022
‘Jewish Geography Gone Wild’: How An Informal Network Of Russian-speaking Jews is Helping Ukrainians
In the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an Israeli friend contacted Jenna Mitelman and asked her to help two Ukrainian refugees. A single mother and her nine-year-old boy […]
March 4, 2022
Resources To Help Ukraine
One week into its war with Ukraine, Russia bombed civilians, hospitals, and historic city centers, reducing entire areas to rubble and creating a humanitarian crisis. One million refugees had already […]
March 2, 2022
A World Disappearing Before Our Eyes…
This piece originally ran on the blog of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota. Like many of us, I have been heartbroken to see […]