Anti-Semitism

In my last blog post, I recounted the background of Yiddish linguist Dovid Katz, who has been reporting on troubling manifestations of ...

I first came across the writings of Dovid Katz while researching what happened to my relatives in Lithuania in the ...

My recently-published memoir,  What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife? , chronicles ...

This week, my Facebook news-feed is filled with outrage about the fact that Hobby Lobby won’t carry Hanukkah decorations. Many ...

The one thing that has really shocked me about my new book is how Jewish it is.I’m a nonobservant Jew, ...

Recently, one of my writing students turned in a story featuring an adorable, vulnerable child whose blue eyes were “wide ...

“Jews don’t have a middle range,” I said to my friend and colleague. He was telling me about his experience ...

The idea of a Jewish conspiracy to control the world has long been a canard of anti-Semites. Its most infamous ...

Albert Einstein may have been the most famous Jew of the 20th century. His biographer Walter Isaacson described that “when he ...

In Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People, Harry Ostrer wrote about a series of scientists who contributed to ...