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Camminando nelle strade del Cairo non diresti mai che fino alla prima metà del 20esimo secolo questa metropoli è stata la patria di decine di migliaia di ebrei. Nella centralissima Al Adly Street fa ancora bella mostra una maestosa ...

I heard an amazing interview on NPR's Fresh Air show last week. (Yes, just to fulfill the stereotype, I listen to public radio podcasts on my iPhone while driving my electric hybrid car.) For decades, many Zionists in the Diaspora and indeed ...

Being Jewish in America is a little like being Italian. Wait. Hear me out. I don’t mean that Italian Americans and Jewish Americans are alike ethnically. That’s something you hear a lot here in the U.S., but mostly from Jews rather ...

I’m surprising myself, mentioning Israel so soon after launching this blog. I swore that The View from the Hudson would be about more than that – and it will. It’s just that I have recently finished listening to a fantastically ...

When Jews and Muslims put their heads together, there’s nothing they can’t achieve. Yesterday, a California judge ruled that a ballot question attempting to establish a law making circumcisions illegal in the city of San Francisco ...

You know how these things happen: About a week ago I saw Barney’s Version, the adaptation of the 1997 Mordecai Richler novel. While watching it, I realized that I hadn’t seen the other great adaptation of Richler’s work, The ...

The "Occupy" movement continues to gain traction. In addition to the NYC protests, there's now an Occupy DC, Boston, LA, and several others. Orgainizers have discovered that out-of-work 20-somethings might not have bus fare to get ...

Not long ago, we had a bit of a dust up here in my Hudson River town. The normal whitetail deer population is supposed to be about 5 per square mile. In this area of the country, we have around 60. I can’t tell you what havoc this causes. ...