Style & Living

The recent comments by freshman Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib during a podcast have been discussed thoroughly in the Jewish, and non-Jewish, community. Tlaib, who spun an ahistorical lie that the surviving Jews of the Holocaust were welcomed with open arms by her Palestinian ancestors, has her defenders in the Democratic Party. The nefarious aspect of the defense tactics is not claiming that she is right; rather, they attack the criticizers themselves. By doing this, their goal is to silence their opponents, and this silence has a history all its own.

“Not only one has risen against us to annihilate us, but in every generation they rise against us to annihilate us.” These words, recited during the most emotional point of the Pesach Seder, still ring true, despite the incredible freedoms American Jews enjoy. Six months after the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, last week another shooting occurred at the Chabad in Poway, California. A few days earlier, The New York Times published a cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depicted as a big-nosed dog with a Jewish star necklace leading a yarmulke-wearing, blind President Trump. Anti-Semitism rears its ugly head in many forms, and American Jews must be knowledgeable of who our enemies are and where they come from if we are to continue to survive.

Dear Alice:

 I’m going away to camp for the whole summer and worked so hard on losing 30 pounds and couldn’t be happier. However, I really don’t want to ruin all the hard work! Help! Any tips that can help me “survive” without getting too off track and at least maintain my loss?

Recap: Yonah is forced to eat dinner at the home of the Herrings and to meet a nephew who, Yonah suspects, is part of the KKK. He wants desperately to warn Mickey of imminent danger.

Many New Yorkers are beginning to think about summer vacations. Traveling can be hectic and even stressful, but for passengers with disabilities, the prospect of air travel can be truly daunting. However, a recently enacted law may provide a new measure of comfort to passengers with physical limitations.