Jewish Americans

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3/7/2023
  

  Will the Right Wing Israeli Government Break American Jews' Relationship with Israel?

  Shaul Magid, Distinguished Fellow of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth, argues that the new government's agenda will force American Jews to recognize that Israel has become an illiberal country, while historian Hasia Diner says it has long been so. 

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• SOURCE: Forward
  7/2/2020
  

  Woodrow Wilson Was a Hero to Jews. What Should We do with his Racism?

  by Jonathan D. Sarna

  Many find it discomforting to learn that Wilson was, at one and the same time, so bad for American Blacks and so good for American Jews.

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• 7/5/2020
  

  Annexation Will Be the (Formal) Beginning of Apartheid and the End of Zionism

  by Andrew Seth Meyer

  An American historian and lifelong liberal Zionist concludes that Israel's planned annexation of West Bank territory will force people of conscience to choose between liberal ideals and a form of Zionism harnessed to ethnic nationalism.

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• SOURCE: Tablet
  5/26/2020
  

  Abraham Lincoln and the Shavuot Controversy of 1865

  The conflict between a national day of mourning declared for Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and the Jewish holiday commemorating God's revelation of the law to Moses (during which mourning is forbidden) reflects conflicting ideas of how Jews should balance observance and participation in civic life.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  5/18/2020
  

  Reform Judaism is a Wounded Giant. A Historian Explains Why it Got so Big.

  by Karla Goldman

  The Union for Reform Judaism faces a financial crisis because, while it shapes the religious practices of Reform Jews, many local congregations face their own financial difficulties and question the value of supporting a distant central organization.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/11/2020
  

  In Jerry Stiller, the Rage of Jewish Fathers Found a Hilarious Outlet

  Jerry Stiller mined a rich comedic vein that was rooted in cultural conflict between Jewish immigrants and their American-born children.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/4/2020
  

  They Survived the Holocaust. Now They’re Confronting the Virus.

  The generation that endured Nazi death camps is especially vulnerable to the pandemic.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/6/2020
  

  A Rich (Very Rich) History of the Jewish Dairy Restaurant

  In a new book, the writer and illustrator Ben Katchor celebrates the places that have fed New York’s craving for blintzes, matzo brei and other delicacies.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/28/2020
  

  They Survived the Spanish Flu, the Depression and the Holocaust: They Have Some Advice For You

  Two extraordinary women — one 101, the other 95 — lived through the worst of the 20th century. They have some advice for you.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  3/15/2020
  

  ‘The Plot Against America’ is Truer than even Philip Roth Knew

  by PJ Grisar

  Not that long ago, America welcomed its first Nazis.

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• 8/27/19
  

  A Voting History of American Jews From 1916 to Today

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Historically, Democratic presidential candidates have received a majority of the Jewish vote.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/1/19
  

  In an era of rising anti-Semitism, should Jewish Americans tack left or right?

  by Andrew Paul

  What a 70-year-old riot says about solidarity.

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• 3/26/19
  

  A Heartwarming Lost Chapter on Immigrants Emerges

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Playwright Harelik does not just tell his grandfather’s personal story in The Immigrant; he tells the story, in one way or another of all immigrants.

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• SOURCE: Mondoweiss
  1/13/19
  

  Angela Davis and the Jewish Civil War

  by Marc H. Ellis

  The Black-Jewish alliance, at least what’s left of it, faces a common challenge of how memorialization works and for whom. 

• SOURCE: HNN Staff
  5-8-13
  

  May is Jewish American Heritage Month

  What do Bob Dylan, J.D Salinger, Harrison Ford, Jon Stewart, Barbara Walters, Barbara Hersey, and Leonard Nimoy all have in common, aside from being awesome? They're all Jewish Americans. May is Jewish American Heritage Month, and this year's theme is American Jews in entertainment.(With apologies to William Shatner, who was born in Canada, and judging by his acting he's probably not kosher anyway.) Jewish American Heritage Month was established by presidential decree in 2006, after lobbying efforts by the Jewish Museum of Florida, the South Florida Jewish community, Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter (Fittingly, Manischewitz is one of the major corporate sponsors.)