Although the prospect seems scarcely imaginable now, there was a time, not very long ago, when American Jews were free to have no particular thoughts or feelings about Israel. This was true not only of run-of-the-mill Jews but of intellectuals and writers as well. And it wasn’t merely that assimilation—an act at once idealistic, pragmatic, and mortifying—was more pressing to a Philip Roth or a Saul Bellow than one’s relationship, one way or another, to the nascent Jewish state. It’s
For Jews, the events of October 7—the worst massacre of Jews on a single day since the Holocaust—were horrifying and traumatizing. But what has happened in the three months since is also deeply unsettling, though in a different way. Much of the world, rather than offering empathy and compassion for Israel, has turned on it.
Hamas’s malevolent actions helped produce a sharp rise in anti-Semitism and in anti-Israel rallies in cities across the world. Earlier this month, the International Court
Hamas’s attack on October 7 had the effect of stopping time. Many Israelis and concerned Jews I’ve spoken with describe a day that has not yet ended for them—a continuous nightmare from which they can’t wake, a reality compounded by the knowledge that so many of the kidnapped are still in captivity. The fiercist critics of Israel’s actions over the past three months don’t want to hear, let alone acknowledge, these feelings, because the weeks of ongoing death and destruction
HOW ARE THINGS in Glocca Morra?” is a song from the 1947 musical “Finian’s Rainbow,” which is about, among other things, a leprechaun. Glocca Morra doesn’t exist, and if it did, it wouldn’t be in, say, Poland. The song is sung by a homesick Irish lass in the American South; like the show overall, it is the most goyish thing that ever happened on Broadway, unless that would be “Brigadoon,” which opened the same year, with its highland heather
“I lost 14 family members in the church bombing in Gaza,” Layla told me.
Layla requested that only her first name be used, due to safety concerns. She is a Palestinian American student at Columbia University. Grieving with dignity there, she said, has felt impossible. She has been repeatedly called a terrorist while walking on campus wearing a keffiyeh—a traditional Palestinian scarf, which has become a symbol of resistance. One student, she recalled, asked her if she was a Hamas … Read more
Die Prognose würde die 70.000 Neuankömmlinge zerstören, die im Jahr 2022 nach Israel auswanderten, viele davon auf der Flucht vor dem anhaltenden Russland-Ukraine-Krieg.
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Die Beiträge, die im GreekRank-Forum von Cornell erschienen, befürworteten im Allgemeinen die Ermordung und Vergewaltigung von Juden auf dem Campus.
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„Wir werden Antisemitismus in Cornell nicht tolerieren“, sagte der Universitätspräsident, nachdem Drohungen gegen das Center for Jewish Living ausgesprochen worden waren.
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This week, the mob came for Germany’s Jews. Wearing masks, they crept on foot through the deserted streets at dawn to hurl Molotov cocktails at a Berlin synagogue and daub the Star of David on the front door of a family who worship there.
On Thursday night, standing outside the synagogue where he is chairman, Pasha Lyubarsky asked me sadly: ‘How could this happen in Germany after the Holocaust?’
Two police officers now stand guard 24 hours a day beside
