for Thursday, August 3, 2023

Holocaust ›

She survived the worst antisemitic attack in US history. Finally, she's ready to talk about it

Benyamin Cohen in Forward

Audrey Glickman, a survivor of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting—the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history—has begun to speak publicly about the trauma after years of silence during the gunman's trial.

Ethics ›

0 Ethics Antisemitism

I’m a rabbi who survived the Pittsburgh synagogue attack. Killing the shooter won’t bring my slain congregants back

Rabbi Jonathan Perlman in Forward

Rabbi Jonathan Perlman, a survivor of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, reflects on the sentencing of the shooter to death.

Antisemitism ›

0 Antisemitism History

Pittsburgh synagogue shooter sentenced to death

Ron Kampeas in Forward

A jury has sentenced the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, Robert Bowers, to death, concluding a tragic chapter in American Jewish history marked by the worst antisemitic attack in the country.

Politics ›

0 Politics Antisemitism

Delaware Congressional candidate Sarah McBride casts herself as a staunch supporter of Israel

Marc Rod in Jewish Insider

Delaware state senator Sarah McBride, recognized as the first openly transgender state senator in U.S. history, is running for the state's at-large Congressional seat with a campaign emphasizing her strong support for Israel and solidarity against antisemitism.

Editors' Note

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by Matt Sienkiewicz

August 3's Short Reads

Tablet A Summer Home on the Range

Tablet The Future of Russian Jewry

Moment Texas to Execute Jewish Man on World Day Against the Death Penalty

Moment Fiction // The Girl of the Comet

Forward Jamaal Bowman’s primary challenger calls the incumbent ‘viscerally anti-Israel’

Lilith Caring For, and Learning From, Queer and Trans Elders

Forward Comparing his indictment to Nazi Germany, Donald Trump is right for extremely wrong reasons

Lilith My Barbenheimer Childhood

Forward Rare video footage of Jews from train leaving Bergen-Belsen unearthed

Forward After Tree of Life sentencing, 6 Jewish scholars on what text and tradition say about the death penalty

Rationalist Judaism Halacha, Science, and Birds

Forward Why this rabbi isn't celebrating (or dismissing) the latest Trump indictments

Lehrhaus Letters to the Editor: Responses to Emmanuel Bloch and Laurie Novick on Reclaiming Dignity

Tablet The Obama Factor

Tablet Thinning the Ranks

Tablet In Lebanon, Israel and America Are on Opposite Sides

Forward Trump campaign likens latest indictment to Nazism

Forward The ADL called for advertisers to boycott Twitter. Now it’s advertising on Twitter.

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