It may sound counter-intuitive to ask why we need to count Jews, after a third of our number were exterminated in the Holocaust. But there…
Posts published in “Jewish Diaspora”
American Jews like me grew up in with an incomprehensible loss of language and living Jewish culture. But those ‘flown letters,’ targeted for erasure by…
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His grandfather was assassinated, his father incapacitated. Now Hussein was king of Jordan, and Israel needed a covert, deniable but direct line to the palace…
Walder was a master storyteller who crushed his victims’ right to tell their own stories of his alleged sexual abuse. Now the Haredi world is…
After a contentious election, President-elect Boric states he will be ‘the president of all Chileans.’ We, Chilean Jews and the Jewish world more broadly, should…
‘Like turning Eichmann into a folk hero’: How far right nationalists in the Balkans are rehabilitating war criminals and their atrocities, from the perpetrators of…
When Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, spoke in London last week, the vocal protests were immediately slammed as antisemitic, and even compared to…
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'Pro-Israel' meets neo-Nazi: Brazil's Bolsonaro unveils his new best friends on the German far right
The Brazilian president’s proximity to neo-Nazi groups is nothing new. But Jair Bolsonaro’s brazen welcome for the German AfD party last month still sent shockwaves…
Ben & Jerry’s is just the latest episode. Israel’s governments consistently try and pressgang Diaspora Jews into its war over the legitimacy of settlements, often…
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A messianic figure recaptures Berlin for the Jews, who once called it home: That’s the thesis of a startling new artwork which poses hard questions…
The trauma of the Temple’s destruction, the foreboding, is always in our consciousness. But that doesn’t mean we should worship at the Third Temple of…
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Despite the bad faith insinuations, progressive Chilean Jews like us can’t support Daniel Jadue’s presidential bid. Not because he is a communist, but because he…
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Remarks by former Israeli ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, to the effect that Israel should invest more in fostering ties with evangelicals than…
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