Posts Tagged: Jewishness

Elie Weisel: Being Jewish is Not ‘Simply a Matter of Birth’ (VIDEO)
Author and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel on Wednesday said being Jewish "is not simply a matter of birth," and called on Jews to "do something...

UK Muslim Leader Hopes London Jewish Community Center Will Help Unite Religions
One of Britain's leading Muslim figures has expressed his hope that a newly erected state-of-the-art Jewish community center in London will help to bring followers...

Psychology, Judaism and Charlie Brown: The Layers of Abraham Twerski
EAST HAMPTON, NY—Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski is the scion of the Chernobyl Hasidic dynasty, a Torah scholar, and a world-renowned psychiatrist and educator specializing in...

James Joyce and the Jews
A recent biography of James Joyce (by Gordon Bowker) reminds me why I have such a soft spot for him. Much has been written about Jews in...

Sacha Baron Cohen Character General Aladeen Spits upon Discovering that Larry King Is Jewish (VIDEO)
Sacha Baron Cohen's latest character to hit the widescreen is a fanatic antisemitic Arab dictator named General Admiral Aladeen loosely based on former Libyan strongman...