Attempting to Restart the Peace Process Will Do More Harm Than Good
Why upend a sustainable status quo?
April 12, 2019
Casual Anti-Semitism and the Orthodox Air-Traveler
Smelly Jews on the plane?
In January, an Orthodox couple and their nineteen-month daughter were kicked off an American Airlines flight, without a chance to collect their luggage or their child’s stroller, on the grounds that they were causing a foul odor. The two have publicly complained that they were targeted, unfairly, due to their religion. While admitting that it is impossible to determine with any certainty how the family smelled, Wendy Shalit believes their claims of anti-Semitism to be entirely credible. And there is no doubt that the incident aroused anti-Semitism:
April 12, 2019
The Recent Election Is a Nail in the Coffin of Israel’s Labor Party
It failed to answer the question that was foremost in most Israelis’ minds.
A New Movie Tells How Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Mizrahi Party Came to Be
The Unorthodox.
Idle Gossip and Judaism’s Theology of Speech
A desecration of what is most sacred.
Casual Anti-Semitism and the Orthodox Air-Traveler
Smelly Jews on the plane?