There is a moment from 2022 that stays with me. It was just shortly after Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. A frail woman named Sonya, weighing barely 66 pounds, arrived on a stretcher at a senior living facility in Berlin’s Marzahn district. Read more » »

Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes By Jonas Kreppel Translated by Mikhl Yashinsky White Goat Press, 575 pp.   Imagine Isaac Bashevis Singer as a boy, huddled over a detective story, delighting in the adventures of a fictional Jewish sleuth who conquers evil and defends the innocent, most of them Jews. Read more » »

you take the long view—and it’s a very long view—relations between Jews and China make the word “complex” seem too simple. The Chinese government’s recent attitude toward Israel might lead one to think that a very ordinary word—“bad”—captures the dynamic. But that would be like judging an immortal novel by an out-of-sync last line. Read more » »

American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews By Andrew Porwancher Princeton University Press, 368 pp. Theodore Roosevelt had a thing about the Jews. Read more » »

Early in 1934, as Adolf Hitler consolidated his stranglehold on Germany, a 25-year-old youth-group leader named Hans-Joachim Schoeps hailed the emerging dictatorship as the embodiment of “military order and discipline, will to power, and authority. Read more » »

“No rabbi at Inauguration; 20-Year Tradition Broken.” Tough headline in the January 21, 1977, Bnai Brith Messenger. And accurate. Indeed, Jimmy Carter was the first president who did not include a prayer by a rabbi as part of the official proceedings of an inauguration ceremony since the tradition began in 1949. Read more » »

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On September 17, the Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature overrode Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s veto and enacted the latest in a series of measures that Cooper and the state’s African-American leaders said was aimed at suppressing, limiting and otherwise diluting the votes of the state’s African American voters. Read more » »

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