New York has had a turbulent few months at City Hall, and plenty of Jewish New Yorkers have felt it. Happily, the city still does one thing better than anywhere else, which is put on a show. Two...
Author - wendy in furs
Were Jews Expelled From 109 Countries? We Counted.
The 109 countries thing is back. (Was it ever gone?) It turns up mostly in replies, tweets etc. as a sort of conversational shrug: Jews have been expelled from 109 countries, so maybe ask yourself...
Same Story, Bigger Screen: NAZA and the Treason That Wasn’t, Until It Was
I haven’t seen NAZA. I mention this up front because it seems to be the one thing I have in common with nearly everyone in Israel who is currently furious about it. The film hasn’t...
Genesis 12:3 and the Scofield Bible Did Not Create Israel
You Can Have the Verse A viral video says American support for Israel was invented in 1909 by a preacher with a forgery charge. Even if that were true, it would explain nothing about why I care. The...
80 Years Since Antisemitism Ended: A Celebration!
Eighty years. Can you believe it? Eighty whole years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in January 1945 put a conclusive end to Antisemitism, the world collectively exhaled, and Jewish people...
The YouTuber Who Can’t Say ‘Jews,’ But Really Wants You To
A Video Showed Up On My Feed With An Israeli Flag And Something Sinister. Then I Found The Pattern. A video showed up on my feed a few days ago. The thumbnail had an Israeli flag on it, some ominous...
Bye Bye Berlin Babka. Palestine Still Not Free.
In January 1942, fifteen men sat around a table at a villa on the Wannsee, a lake in the southwest of Berlin, and spent about ninety minutes scheduling the murder of every Jew in Europe. The...
Is Montreal Canadiens Goalie Jakub Dobeš Jewish?
I have twenty minutes before Game 4 starts and I need to address something. Since I wrote my piece on the Canadiens and Jewish Montreal last month, Jewlicious has been getting a steady stream of...