Philologos
National News
- Jewish Women Lag Behind Men in Promotion and Pay
- Fiscal Challenges Face Federations
- On Campus, a Divide Over ‘Pro-Israel’
Community News
- In Mayoral Race, N.Y. Jews Back Bloomberg
- Lévi-Strauss: He Changed How We See Culture, but Ignored His Own
- For Pets, a Temporary Shelter From the Storm
International News
- U.S. Eases Pressure on Israel, Leans On Palestinians
- HIAS Still Aids Immigrants, but Most Don’t Resemble Sergey Brin
- Human Rights Watch Debates Its Mission With a Founding Critic
Israel News
- Palestinian Workers Plan To Sue Settlement, Seek To Fall Under Israeli Law
- Losing Support and Suffering Defections, Labor Party Is in a ‘Struggle for Life’
- British Christians Push Repentance for Nation’s Conduct During Mandate
Arts & Culture
- Talmud vs. Anna Akhmatova
- Transforming the Y
- Against Israeli Anti-Mizrahism
- EnviroJews Avant La Lettre
- Squeezing the Cultural and Historical Juice Out of Love in ‘Jaffa’
- Brutally Frank
Fast Forward
- Schmutz Sandwich Anyone?
- The Doctor Who Had the Chutzpah To Write Music
- Nine Faiths, One Vegan Lunch at Windsor Castle
- High School Reunion
- Creating an Arab-Israeli Dialogue, One Note at a Time
- Saving Pastrami on Rye
The Shmooze
- First Israeli NBA Player Scores Big
- The Pitselech Are Reviving Yiddish
- Jon & Shmuley Plus Another Media Circus
- Is Your Recipe Worth $25,000?
- Hummus Wars
- The L.A. Times: ‘Jewish Guys Heart Shiksas’
Forward Forum
- The Goldstone Standard
- The World That Jewish Veterans Built
- What a Dollar Gets You on Capitol Hill, and What It Doesn’t
- Is Birthright Israel an Intermarriage Panacea?
- Calming the Temple Mount
- A Terrorist Who Was Not Alone
Editorial
In a Familiar Hand
By Philologos
From Dennis Gottfried comes this query: “Since European Jews used the Hebrew alphabet to write Judeo-German or Yiddish, and Spanish Jews used it to write Judeo-Spanish or Ladino, I wonder whether other Jewish populations in the history of the Diaspora — ones speaking Persian or Arabic, for example — did the same thing.”Read More
When in Rome (Don’t Call Yourself Roman)
By Philologos
From down under in Melbourne, Australia, Lauren Wiener writes: “Could you please explain how ‘Nusach Sfard’ came to be the Nusach of some Ashkenazi Jews and why the family name Ashkenazi exists mostly among Sephardic Jews?”Read More
The Cons of Pro and Caring More
By Philologos
I suppose it is late in the day to plunge into the argument over J Street, the “pro-Israel” Political Action Committee — as it likes to call itself — whose repeated criticism of Israeli government policies and actions has many supporters of Israel up in arms. Still, with the organization’s first annual conference in Washington the week of October 25, I find it hard to resist.Read More
Not Abel To Hear Cain’s Words
By Philologos
Just what did Cain say to Abel before killing him? Every time we read the first portion of Genesis all over again on the holiday of Simchat Torah, I’m sure many of you ask yourselves the same question.Read More
Why We Don’t Say Shanath Tovath
By Philologos
- The Great War: A Letter From the Front Deciphered
- Fronting and Assimilating to a Gut Yontif
- You Can Teach Everything, Barring a ‘Disaster’
- Fallen From Grace to Gratuitous Hate
- The Pros and Cons of Air Power
- Before Madoff, or the Goyim, A Shandeh
- Redheaded Warrior Jews
- Telling Tales of Sick People
- The New York Times: Ignorant and Antisemitic?
- Stop Talking out of Your Nose
Advertisements
Advertisements