As Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States last week, my sigh of relief was deeply, painfully personal. My life has been defined by migration and the laws associated with it since I arrived here from Caracas, Venezuela, with my single mother and sister at the age of 6.…
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Local Voice
Tu B’Shevat is more than trees — it’s about our link in the chain
I was born in the Jewish month of Shevat, the month in which we celebrate the new year for the trees. At one of my childhood birthday parties, maybe when…
First Person
That time I was in a hot tub full of neo-Nazis
This piece originally appeared on Alma. Sundhöllen, a public swimming pool in Reykjavik, Iceland, is located at Barónsstígur 45a, 101. The building’s…
Local Voice
Why we need to commemorate the Shoah twice every year
World Jewry continues to ask “How can we best memorialize the Shoah?” The challenge is fivefold: To honor the Six Million (and many millions of gentile…
History
Remembering the foreign diplomats who saved Jews during the Holocaust
It was my first assignment as an Israeli diplomat. I had been posted as the deputy consul general at the Israeli Consulate in Shanghai, China. I had known…
Letters
Jewish and Black; What would MLK think?; BDS isn't antisemitic; etc.
Jewish, Black and Jan. 6 I want to thank Tova Ricardo for her extremely thoughtful, reflective and beautifully articulated article on being Black and…
First Person
Joe Biden’s inauguration was replete with anxiety, and a lot of it was Jewish
I walked to President Joe Biden’s inauguration. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transport Authority closed 13 downtown stations Jan. 15-21, so I couldn’t…
Analysis
From California to DC, disparate far-right factions are unified by anger
Wearing a black cowboy hat and a bandana covering most of his face, “Odin,” a soft-spoken Proud Boys member, was getting choked up. He stood on a flatbed…
Editorial
A new era, and what we take into it from Jan. 6
As neo-Nazis, antisemites, deluded conspiracy theorists and determined seditionists stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the world looked on in horror.…