2+ hour, 25+ min ago  (44+ words) What Adam Sandler knows about being Jewish The Times of Israel - Follow You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page You will no longer receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago  (603+ words) The assumption seemed to be that I could not possibly be reading Trump's words straightforwardly. The "correct" interpretive framework, at least within that social environment, was to understand the statement performatively rather than literally. Trump was expressing emotion, posture, morale,…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (681+ words) Each year, like in many synagogues around the country, our congregants perform a Purim Shpiel, a humorous play that reenacts the Purim story from the Book of Esther. To create a parody, we usually meld the show with a current…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (421+ words) In one letter, he protested: "I have no feeling towards the Jews but a friendly one. I always speak well of them, whether in public or private, and bear my testimony (as I ought to do) to their perfect good…...