Continued from last week’s Jewish Star
Tell me about the death march.
Our camp was close to the front where the Americans were fighting the Germans. So they took us out and walked us …
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By Celia Weintrob
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7/19/17
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Last Friday’s deadly terror attack near the Temple Mount shows how Israel is at the forefront of the clash of civilizations between the Islamic world and the West—not only with the …
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By Ariel Ben Solomon, JNS.org
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7/19/17
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The Israeli government reopened the Temple Mount complex to Muslims and members of other faiths on Sunday with strict new security measures, in the wake of last Friday’s attack near the …
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By Alex Traiman, JNS.org
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7/19/17
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The U.S. consul general in Jerusalem recently set off on the first leg of a 200-mile hike that will simultaneously promote one pro-Palestinian myth while inadvertently exploding another.
Consul …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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7/19/17
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Last year, I wrote an opinion piece for JTA about a term and a trend few Jews over the age of 30 had ever heard of: intersectionality. Coined in the late 1980s, intersectionality posits that various …
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Commentary by David Bernstein, JTA
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7/19/17
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At 3-1/2, Peretz Apfelbaum may not completely understand it yet, but some kitchens can put his life in danger.
The Brooklyn boy is allergic to peanuts …
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By Gabe Friedman, JTA
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7/19/17
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WASHINGTON — Alan Gross, 68, wanted to tell me his news: He and his wife, Judy, had made aliyah.
“It came through on May 3, which is Golda Meir’s birthday …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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7/19/17
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Mayim Bialik, a star on the CBS hit sitcom “The Big Bang Theory,” launched a witty new video campaign this week for SodaStream, succeeding actress Scarlett Johansson as the official …
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By Adam Abrams, JNS.org
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7/19/17
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Summer is my favorite season and so far, I’ve been keeping busy. My daughter and son-in-law’s dog, Murphy kept us company for a week while they enjoyed their first anniversary on July …
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By Judy Joszef
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7/19/17
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S he was the Other Doctor of Auschwitz and I recently read a story about her in Yitta Halberstam’s small miracles series.
A young woman (we’ll call her Chaya) had just arrived …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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7/19/17
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