Anti-Semitism is Strengthening the Identity of Young Jews: The Writer’s Cut of My JTA Essay
Eighteen years ago, I left my job as managing editor at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
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Eighteen years ago, I left my job as managing editor at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
20 years ago, there was a great fear that young Jews, facing no anti-Semitism, were losing connection to Judaism.
After I left JTA in 2001, I had to take a break from Jewish news. I thought it’d be great to cover science, where there were fewer disputes, where things are either true or not true. Boy was I ever wrong.
Philosopher Andrew Pessin takes a look at Jewish thought through the ages, discovers “exhilarating” disagreement.
Is Tikkun Olam ripping Judaism apart? I interviewed author Jonathan Neumann for Publishers Weekly.
In this audio excerpt of my memoir, I am 19 years old and learn an important lesson about perception and reality in Muslim-Jewish relations; and I begin my accidental Jewish journalism career.
There are very few living people who can relate this story of life under communist rule.
The solution is to do what many Jews already do—channel that pain into easing the suffering of others.
This is a memory of a memory from my grandfather, who hid in a wine barrel from an anti-Jewish rampage.
I have a complex relationship between struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and the comfort of Jewish ritual.