Arts & Culture
How Jews became white
Review
“Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities”
by Emily Tamkin. New York: HarperCollins, 2022.
256 pages | $28.99.
In her introduction, author Emily...
Raskin, Tannen speak at Beth El in Alexandria
As lead impeachment manager, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) headed the effort to convict President Donald Trump in his second Senate trial.
That 2021 impeachment, like...
What’s so funny about antisemitism?
Alex Edelman is tired. He just flew home to New York on a red-eye. About halfway through a recent Zoom conversation, he pulled out...
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Nation and World
Some Jewish groups are quiet on far-right extremists’ election in Israel
Few of the American Jewish groups who would not speak out about the prospect of extremists in government before Israel’s elections have done so...
Anne Frank, Christian?
By Andrew Lapin
The Republican nominee for Congress in Texas’ 7th district is a self-proclaimed history buff, but his take on Anne Frank is not...
Did you enter a Jewish building, event or program this year?
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By Larry Luxner
When Jewish summer camps unexpectedly had to cancel their summer programs two years ago after the COVID-19 pandemic hit and before vaccines...
Top Picks
- ‘My Unorthodox Life’ star traded her faith for narcissism
Review It’s a good thing Christopher Lasch isn’t around today to consider reality shows such as “My Unorthodox Life” and others of its ilk. Lasch ...
- Potomac eatery gets kosher certification
Potomac became just a little more kosher last month after Rabbi Adam Raskin, of Congregation Har Shalom, certified Playa Bowls eatery in Cabin John Village ...
- What are ‘Judeo-Christian values’? Analyzing a divisive term
A debate that reveals deep political differences
- Rabbi Yonina Creditor starts position as chaplain at Naval Academy
Talking to Rabbi Yonina Creditor is an exercise in efficiency. She tells it like it is in a way that’s both straightforward and positive, speaking ...
- Jewish lives lost to the coronavirus
Chabad.org is working on a project to record and recall every member of the Jewish community who has perished during this plague. Yaakov Abayev ● ...
Food and Dining
Chanukah brings out the oil and the good cheer
By Ethel G. Hofman
Ah, Chanukah — the holiday when we eat fried foods to commemorate the miracle of the oil.
The eight-day “Festival of Lights,”...
It’s about (pie) time
Quiche, cheesecake, Shepard’s pie, any pie … my children say I make round foods well. I’ll take the compliment. And it’s true that there...
A world in an etrog
Consider the etrog.
A citrus fruit with a lemony floral scent, it is one of the Four Species of Sukkot, taken in hand and shaken...
