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April 28, 2006

Shortly before Passover, my 4-year-old son sat on my lap as the matzah balls boiled, asking to read through the kids’ Haggadah in preparation to recite (or more likely mumble) the Four Questions. The supernatural events that enthralled him (the parting of the Red Sea, the profusion of frogs on Pharaoh’s nose and toes) quickly […]

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For decades, the organized Jewish community has attempted to make Israel the linchpin of American Jews’ Jewish identity, while downplaying the emotional, but sure to fade, role of the Holocaust. That community received a jolt this week: American Jews 18 to 39 still consider the Holocaust more crucial to their Jewish identity than Israel. According […]

Karaganda, Kazakhstan The Salop home at 18 Kopliskaya St., a one-story wooden building along the main road of Slutsk, was lit with kerosene lamps and crowded with a few guests on the seder nights of 1929. David Salop’s grandfather, a Russian worker’s cap on his head, led the seders. The conversation was in Yiddish; the […]

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