Observation ·
Jews were expected to transform their shtetl values, religious traditions, and bourgeois attitudes into muscular exemplars of humanity’s ideal, the New Soviet Man.
Observation ·
Even though the author tries to downplay it, a new book shows how deeply rooted anti-Semitism was in Soviet ideology.
Response ·
I am fortunate to have witnessed, and been offered, not only real madness but also real, and not delusional, goodness.
Response ·
Airing the complicity of some American Jews with Soviet criminality is essential to the honor and the reputation of the Jewish people.
Response ·
But notoriously some, like Morton Sobell, were both. For the Jewish community, their highly visible profile was a constant source of tension and embarrassment.
Monthly Essay ·
With the recent death of the unrepentant spy, his story, along with that of other American Jews steeped in Communism, can finally be told.
Observation ·
It wasn't easy for an entire Jewish family to escape Eastern Europe in the mid-20th century. Ruth Wisse's did.
Observation ·
Deified by their Soviet readers, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are beginning to find increasing numbers of readers in America.
Monthly Essay ·
The usual answer is Truman—but it could just as easily be Stalin. In fact, thanks to Zionist diplomacy, it was both; and therein lies a lesson for the Jewish state today.
Observation ·
Lugging suitcases or large woven bags—anything big enough to hold a carton of matzah without raising suspicion—tens of thousands made their way to underground bakeries.
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