A Memoir in Ritual Moments
June 12, 2025
Wendy A. Horwitz, Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments (Bloomington, IN.: Red Lightening Books, 2025) pp. 234.
Michael Berenbaum
Michael Berenbaum is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and a professor of Jewish Studies at American Jewish University.
Why Pope Francis of Blessed Memory Was So Important to the Jews
May 8, 2025
I am grateful that he has come to recognize on behalf the Church he led that Judaism is a legitimate and honored path to be faithful to God and humanity.
Pious Muslims and Orthodox Jews Have Much in Common
March 19, 2025
Samuel Heilman and Mighait Bilici, Following Similar Paths: What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn From One Another (Oakland: University of California Press, 2024),
‘Fighter in the Woods’: A Book for Young Readers about the Holocaust
February 27, 2025
Greene’s scholastic series is a wonderful way to engage young readers.
Sacred Heresy
January 23, 2025
Menachem Z. Rosensaft, Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz (Teneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda Press, 2025).
Jimmy Carter 1924-2024: An Appreciation
January 2, 2025
Jews have a particular memory of the Carter years. But our recollections may be at odds with the evidence.
One Day in October
December 5, 2024
We are all post-October 7th Jews, none more so than our Israeli brethren who have lived and breathed the pogrom, the war, and the hostage crisis for the past 15 months.
Thoughts on Kristallnacht in a Post-October 7th World
November 5, 2024
In 2024, what are the implications of remembering the November 1938 pogroms in the post-Oct. 7 world?
A Great Opportunity for the Simon Wiesenthal Center
October 9, 2024
The retirement of famed Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff from the Simon Wiesenthal Center brings an era to an end.
How Can We Commemorate Oct. 7?
September 4, 2024
There is a boiling controversy in Israel on how to observe this catastrophic anniversary.
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