Tag: intermarriage

An Israeli Official Called My Family a “Second Holocaust” — and I Felt Relieved

Lynne Peskoe-Yang

In a recent meeting, the Israeli Minister of Educati called my family part of “a second Holocaust. My family isn’t ‘the second Holocaust. We’re the Diaspora.

When an Accused Sexual Harasser is an Academic Superstar

Helene Meyers

To what extent will we able to separate the research from the researcher, and should we? With what sort of contextualizing footnotes do we now cite his work?

There Was More to My Buba Than Her Bad Matzoh Balls

Kyla Kupferstein

Everyone who made up what would have been my Jewish family was lost in the War. No one taught my Buba to cook.

Can a Non-Jewish Spouse “Step Away” From Jewish Fears?

Olivia Spencer

A writer from “trendy West London” talks about the complexity of joining a Jewish family–but feeling the inherent safety in being able to “step away” from the prejudices that could plague her husband and children. Are non-Jewish spouses immune from anti-Jewish discrimination–in England, and everywhere?