Kaffiyeh Feygele
This is somewhat old news but it provides a new way to beat a dead scarf, so why not. A few days ago I spotted a young German man on the Berlin subway wearing a Kaffiyeh Yisraelit. I mentioned this to...
View ArticleTennis Menace
Those not up on their Scandinavian political/ sports news may have missed a current shitstorm in Sweden over a Davis Cup tennis match, played today, in which the Swedish national team meets the...
View ArticleVideo: Tel Aviv at 100, looking back
Tel Aviv is celebrating its centennial this year. When in Israel I am often struck by a sense that the histories of the land, or rather the various narrative strands emphasized different groups, are...
View ArticleMuslims, Jews and Anti-Semitism in Sweden: Part 1, It’s Complicated
I bristle at reports of Muslim anti-Semitism against Jews in my home country of Sweden. (Even though I have to admit it’s a thing.) Growing up in Sweden in the 1980s and ‘90s I inhabited a space...
View ArticleMuslims, Jews and Anti-Semitism in Sweden: Pt. 2 Siavosh Derakhti
Siavosh Derakhti was outraged at the anti-Semitic views he heard expressed in his hometown of Malmö. In response he started “Young Muslims against Anti-Semitism” in 2010 – now “Youth Against...
View ArticleJews, Europe, Racism and fear of the wrong thing
Nationalism and racism in Europe is real, growing and dangerous. In some sense, history could repeat itself. But we’re being far too literal about it – and blind to what’s in front of us – if we’re...
View ArticleSyrian refugees and Jewish memory
I can’t get the images of Syrian refugees on the beaches of Europe out of my mind. And with those images I can’t help but think of this: In 1940 my grandfather and his immediate family fled Holland in...
View Article8 Hanukkah candle brands that don’t support the JNF
Like many a Jewish Diaspora kid I grew up with a white and blue JNF pushka in my room. I even received a certificate for ostensibly funding my very own tree. Seemed like a laudable cause. Later I...
View ArticleUncle Tom in the Pale of Settlement
As an American scholar of Jewish culture, I became interested in […] how Jews were and are also, in certain ways, positioned to be American racism’s beneficiaries. How exactly we are – or became –...
View ArticleHasid Takes Stand for Muslims, Makes a few Enemies, Many Friends
Last week Alexander Rapaport, a Borough Park Hasid, made headlines taking a stand with Yemenite bodega owners against the immigration ban on seven Muslim countries. Then, in the last day or two, the...
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