Last Thursday, at the American Jewish Press Association‘s 45th Annual Simon Rockower Awards Reception and Dinner in New York, I received the David Twersky Journalism Award for Is Israel Losing...
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Welcome Home: Spain Beats Its Own Flotilla Heroes at the Airport.
On Saturday, six members of the Basque delegation to the Global Sumud Flotilla landed at Bilbao airport after being deported from Israel via Turkey. Supporters and family members had gathered in the...
Israel Is Losing Its Friends. Here Is How We Get Them Back.
The Knesset is dissolving. Elections are coming in October. And I am standing in the Mahane Yehuda market with my kids, watching an old Kurdish vendor arrange tangerines next to a Haredi family...
JewliciousReads: Some September 2021 Book Recommendations
Sitting in a sukkah during the intermediate days of the chag offers a nice time to stock up on new September releases. Some recommendations are: PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS Reports from a Haunted Present...
JewliciousReads: Some Summer Beach Reads 2021
A few recommended Summer 2021 reads (for those in the Northern Hemisphere) THAT SUMMER A Novel by Jennifer Weiner Part 2 in the Cape Cod Trilogy Publication Date: May 11, 2021 Publisher: Altria Books...
Poland and the Jews: The People2People Project
When one thinks about Jews and Poland the first thing that comes to mind usually isn’t Jazz, or high fashion, or burlesque etc. A new and innovative project called People2People is seeking to...
What’s Up With Israeli Professors and Extraterrestrials?
Jewish people have been known to look to the heavens or at least to the East from whence their strength will come, and in the past few weeks, two Israelis have made earthwide news with their ideas on...
And Why Shouldn’t The White House Do Israel’s Dry Cleaning?
There was minor snickering this week, during the DAYS OF AWE (DAYS OF CHUTZ-PAW), when THE WASHINGTON POST reported that Israeli Prime minister Netanyahu and his spouse had a habit of bringing...