Category Archives: Washington Jewish Week
Author Eric Rozenman on the decline of just about everything
Eric Rozenman. Courtesy Eric Rozenman Review “From Elvis to Trump, Eyewitness to the Unraveling: Co-Starring Richard Nixon, Andy Warhol, Bill Clinton, the Supremes, and Barack Obama” by Eric Rozenman. Washington: Academica Press, 2021. 196 pages. $39.95. Read more » »
Pamela Relkin
Pamela Relkin, of Silver Spring, passed away on March 10. She was 86. Pamela was born in 1936 in England to Jack (a tailor) and Katie Felberg. She had two older brothers, Manny and Peter, and a younger sister, Lillian. During the second world war, they were sent to the tube (subway) to take cover from the bombs and often sleep. Read more » »
Did Whoopi Goldberg take a page from the ADL?
By Gerard Leval Special to WJW Last week, just days after International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the actress and talk show commentator Whoopi Goldberg made the surprising and false statement that “the Holocaust isn’t about race. Read more » »
Joy Weiss Cohen
Joy Weiss Cohen, of Chevy Chase, died on Aug. 23. She was the beloved wife of nearly 65 years of the late S. Robert Cohen. Devoted mother of Barry (Kamal), Alan, Brian (Madeleine), Douglas (Sheri) and Daniel Cohen. Dear sister of James Weiss. Loving grandmother of Samuel Cohen and Sunitha Cohen Barron (Joshua). Read more » »
At rally, this is what unity looks like
NO FEAR: A Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People.”Photo by Lloyd Wolf By Ron Kampeas and Rudy Malcom More than 2,000 people spent a sweltering afternoon in front of the U.S. Capitol at a rally on Sunday that denounced antisemitism as un-American and made the case that Jewish identity and support for Israel are inextricable. Read more » »
For Rabbi Bruce Aft, a whole new ballgame
Rabbi Bruce Aft of Congregation Adat Reyim in Springfield. Photograph by David Stuck To hear the congregants of Adat Reyim tell it, Bruce Aft is rabbi extraordinaire. Read more » »
