They Buried It in Milk Cans So You Could Read It In 1999, UNESCO added three collections from Poland to its Memory of the World register: the scientific works of Copernicus, the masterpieces of...
October 7th: Three Years Ago This Morning
I’m writing this at about the same hour I woke up three years ago. That Saturday morning the walls of my apartment in Jerusalem started shaking from booms, and at 8:15 the sirens went off. It...
Mamdani’s Antisemitism Plan Comes With a Receipt, and It’s Made Out to CAIR
Last week Zohran Mamdani stood in front of a camera to launch his antisemitism plan, and told New York’s Jews that, in his words, “antisemitism is real, and it is growing.” Very...
While We Were Off, Part 4: London Students Pick October 7
There are 365 days in a year. A group of London students looked at all of them and picked October 7. The group calls itself the University of London Coalition, and it’s planning to march from...
While We Were Off, Part 3: P.S. 321 Drops Beth Elohim “Because of Israel”
If you wanted to design a synagogue that nobody could possibly accuse of being too pro-Israel, you’d build Congregation Beth Elohim. It’s the biggest Reform shul in Brooklyn, sitting in...
While We Were Off, Part 2: Dancing at the Nova Site
Simchat Torah 2023 is the day the music stopped at Nova. Hamas murdered 378 people at the rave in the Re’im Forest and dragged 44 more into Gaza. Three years later, this past Saturday, dozens...
While We Were Off, Part 1: The False Flag Crowd
While we were off dancing with Torah scrolls, the internet decided that the flydubai attack was a Mossad operation. The Combat Antisemitism Movement clocked the first “false flag” post 67...
Thank God for Rude Israelis: Everything We Know About flydubai Flight FZ1073
Let’s be honest about something. Israelis are terrible on airplanes. I say this with love, as someone who has flown in and out of Ben Gurion more times than I can count. The plane hasn’t...
Sydney Sweeney Has Good Jeans. Judaism Doesn’t Care.
Sydney Sweeney may or may not have gone to shul on Rosh Hashanah. The internet has already scheduled her bat mitzvah. Besties, that is not how any of this works. So you’ll remember that I spent...
One of the Best Croissants I Ever Ate Was at The Michael Levin Lone Soldier Base in Jerusalem
I need to tell you about the time I walked into The Michael Levin Base expecting nothing and got handed a croissant. It was Bastille Day, or as the French actually call it, “le 14...