To Feel Safe, Jews Need a Government that Says & Does the Right Thing
The Pittsburgh shooting isn’t evidence that America has a Jewish problem, or even a far-right problem, although it has both.
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Author: Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trayon White Sr., Joy Reid and Roseanne Barr (left to right). (JTA Collage/Getty Images/GPO)
Who’s Sorry Now: The Top 10 Apologies of the Jewish Year
JTA has compiled a list of the most newsworthy apologies of the past 12 months.
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"Three Identical Strangers" is a documentary about triplets separated at birth by a Jewish-affiliated adoption agency in 1961. (Courtesy of NEON)
Does ‘Three Identical Strangers’ Play Fair with Its Audience? [Spoilers]
The documentary recalls a tabloid-friendly story from the early 1980s, when identical triplets David Kellman, Bobby Shafran and Eddy Galland discovered one another’s existence through a series of coincidences.
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Richard Siegel, Educator Who Co-Edited ‘The Jewish Catalog,’ Dies
“The First Jewish Catalog” became an instant best-seller for the Jewish Publication Society. It and two subsequent volumes were credited with empowering young Jews who felt alienated from synagogue life.
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Your Guide to Shavuot, Now with 50 Percent Less Facts
The Book of Ruth tells the story of a non-Jewish woman who decides to become Jewish in part because her late husband’s Jewish mother had great leads on jobs in the agricultural sector.
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A view of the casket holding Martin Luther King Jr. during his funeral procession in Atlanta, April 9, 1968. (Ken Guthrie/Getty Images)
How JTA Reported on Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination
On April 8, four days after the assassination, JTA reported on a memorial march for King. “Scores” of Jewish leaders took part, and the grand rabbi of France, Jacob Kaplan, sent a telegram of condolence to King’s widow, Coretta Scott King.
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7 Works of Fiction Set at Jewish Sleepaway Camp
Long before “Wet Hot American Summer,” the Jewish summer camp has fired the literary imagination.
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What’s in a Name? Reconstructionist Judaism is Finding Out.
Reconstructing Judaism. The new name, explained its president, Rabbi Deborah Waxman, “reflects a subtle but profound evolution in Reconstructionist thinking about how and why to be Jewish in the 21st century.”
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A screenshot from Google Images shows several prominent Jews accused of sexual harassment in the past month. (Google Images)
Jews Make News, But When is it Jewish News?
Mark Zuckerberg and Jared Kushner make news every day; does the fact that they are Jewish make it Jewish news?
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Larry David presents his opening monologue on"Saturday Night Live" including bits on the Holocaust and the high-profile Jews being accused of sexual harassment, Nov. 4, 2017. (Screenshot from YouTube)
Larry David’s Holocaust Joke Was an Offense — Against Comedy
Larry David has used the Holocaust as punchline much more effectively — and humorously — in the past. There was the “Seinfeld” episode where Jerry is caught making out with a date during “Schindler’s List.”
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Conan O’Brien speaking with Israeli soldiers overlooking the Golan Heights, August 2017. (Screenshot from YouTube)
Conan and ‘Transparent’ Give Israel the Normalcy it Craves
The start of the fall TV season has been very good to Israel. Anxious about the BDS movement and other efforts to delegitimize Israel, its boosters were treated to a season-long arc on “Transparent” largely set in Israel, as well as an hourlong “Conan In Israel” special on TBS.
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