Among the many incisive points that thinker and educator Ben M. Freeman made in our interview with him (INTERVIEWS) was the following: One of the narratives about Jewish people since the Enlightenment is that we have to be Jewish in a way that’s acceptable to the non-Jewish world. They create categories of “good Jew”…
Generally speaking, Diaspora Jews living under Islamic rule did not suffer from…
This month (March 2022), a series of 18 bomb threats have been made against Jewish community centers around the country. Targeted centers have included those in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arizona, and New Jersey. The threats have come with the phrase “Jew filth.” In response, the Anti-Defamation League said, “We remain in ongoing contact with local…
At its heart, the hatred of Jews — which has existed in one form or another for 2,000 years — is difficult to understand or explain…
Diaspora Jewish men have long been depicted as more closely resembling Woody Allen…
Although criticism of specific Israeli government policies and actions is legitimate…
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The best-known incident involving antisemitism and actor, film director, producer, and…
Shtetls, small towns primarily populated by Ashkenazi Jews, were an important feature of Eastern European Jewish life before World War II. They were mainly found in the areas that constituted the 19th-century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, as well as in Congress Poland, Austrian Galicia, the Kingdom of Romania, and the Kingdom of…
Samuel del Campo (1882 – 1960) was a Chilean diplomat during the Second World War. From 1941 until Chile joined the Allies in 1943, he worked in…
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