The tyranny of the normal
Jewish Journal
September 16, 2015
I grew up on 1950s television, and all I wanted in the world was to be the Cleavers.
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jewish identity
Bernie Sanders: Being Jewish taught me ‘what politics is about’
Jewish Journal
June 12, 2015
A day after a radio host falsely said that Sen. Bernie Sanders has Israeli citizenship, the candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination spoke publicly about how his Jewish identity has influenced him.
What’s wrong with March of the Living?
Jewish Journal
April 14, 2015
The evening before we visited Auschwitz, over pizza with a group of young people in Oswiecim, the town on whose outskirts lies that infamous symbol, one of my students approached me with tears in her eyes.
Conney Conference poses a question that may have no answer
Jewish Journal
March 18, 2015
Is there such a thing as Jewish art?
What’s my name? Thanksgiving
Jewish Journal
November 24, 2014
I was born in Soviet Ukraine at a time when people were stripped of their spiritual rights and forced to conform to a colorless mass that was communism.
Manhattan’s Ramaz school clarifies advice on concealing kippahs
Julie Bien
September 2, 2014
When Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, the principal of Ramaz, an Orthodox day school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, first heard about last week’s attack in the neighborhood on a Jewish couple by a mob bearing Palestinian flags, he had an instinctual response.
Giving meaning to Holocaust remembrance
Jewish Journal
April 23, 2014
Much ink has been spilled since the release of the Pew Research Center survey on Jewish identity in the United States. Many have addressed a number of the findings of the survey, with varying degrees of concern.
Jewish identity defined — a la Facebook
Jewish Journal
July 3, 2008
Facebook has become far more than a social network; it is a virtual social necessity. The Jewish community has created a haven for there, claiming hundreds of groups, applications and pieces of Jewish flair.
When ‘pride’ doesn’t cut it
Jewish Journal
June 5, 2008
Growing up an observant Jew in the small city of Palm Springs with a Jewish minority was sometimes difficult, but I have always been proud of my Jewish heritage, of who I was and of what I believe.
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