Syndication
Return of the European JewIn 1946, Robert Welsch, a German Jewish journalist who had fled to Palestine during World War II, went back to Berlin. “It smells of corpses here, of gas chambers and torture chambers,” he wrote. “The remnant of Jewish settlements in Germany must be liquidated as quickly as possible. Germany is no soil for Jews.”…Read more
The Last Best Hope For Religious Continuity: GaysIn an age when religious activists frequently lament that their faith is under constant attack by secularism, gays could prove to be religion’s last best hope.It’s a lesson I’ve learned keenly from personal experience. As a child, I read the Bible literally and decided I wanted to become a prophet when I grew up. I imagined tasting an actual…Read more
Doomed Love and MelancholyPublishers are notoriously reluctant to take on story collections, perhaps in part because unlike novels, a story collection has to justify its own existence. It isn’t enough for a story collection to be well written, poignant and intelligent. Why, readers ask themselves, have these eight to 12 stories been juxtaposed between the…Read more
The Last Best Hope For Religious Continuity: GaysIn an age when religious activists frequently lament that their faith is under constant attack by secularism, gays could prove to be religion’s last best hope.It’s a lesson I’ve learned keenly from personal experience. As a child, I read the Bible literally and decided I wanted to become a prophet when I grew up. I imagined tasting an actual…Read more
Doomed Love and MelancholyPublishers are notoriously reluctant to take on story collections, perhaps in part because unlike novels, a story collection has to justify its own existence. It isn’t enough for a story collection to be well written, poignant and intelligent. Why, readers ask themselves, have these eight to 12 stories been juxtaposed between the…Read more
- Israeli Police Probe Allegations That New York Charity Funneled Funds to Olmert-Tied Entity
- Plan to House Two N.Y. Shuls Erupts Into Feud
- Rabbinical Court Puts Thousands Of Converts in Legal Limbo
- Wearing Identity on Its Sleeve, German Far Right Gets a Makeover
- Think Tank Aims To Infuse Jewish Mainstream With Dashes of Color
- Israeli Diamond Magnate’s Business Unwelcome in Dubai
- Let Them Change Light Bulbs
Noam Neusner - Help Others In Israel Follow The Path of The Druze
Reda Mansour - Iranians Ought To Be Clear on the Price of Going Nuclear
Thomas Lippman - A Time for Mourning, A Time To Rejoice
Leonard Fein - We Weren’t Always United by Indissoluble Bonds
Michael Oren - To Have an Impact, a Ban on Cluster Bombs Must Be Absolute
Kathleen Peratis
