(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol 78, #2, Winter 2023) David Saks As its title indicates, Challenging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement: 20 Years of Responding to Anti-Israel Campaigns examines how world Jewry and its supporters have responded to the international campaign
(Author: Charlotte Cohen, Vol. 78, #2, Winter 2023) The conversation was intelligent and stimulating. Spoken quite casually, and despite the fact that I had never heard it used in a sentence before, one word stood out: The word was ‘anthropomorphic.’ Upon
(Author: Paul Trewhela, Vol. 78, #3, Winter 2023) Already as a young woman, Tanya Litvinov found herself at the harsh juncture between literature, art and the totalitarian society of the Soviet Union, where her parents were members of the precarious political elite. When
(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 78, #2, Winter 2023) The Jewish presence in what is today known as the Kingdom of the Netherlands probably dates to Roman times, when Jews accompanied the Roman armies into the southern part of the area. Documentary evidence of
(Author: Steven Katzew, Vol. 78, #2, Winter 2023) From time-to-time fingers are pointed at the South African Jewish community generally, and in particular its institutions and leadership under various guises, for lack of sufficient resistance to the policy of systematic racial discrimination
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol 78, #2, Winter 2023) Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. With these words Henry Longfellow, the American poet who