Philip Roth
Why I am saying kaddish for Al Jaffee of Mad magazine
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 12, 2023
(RNS) — A childhood literary hero has died — the man who taught me the art of snark.
I know the rabbi in “The Plot Against America”
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 21, 2020
"The Plot Against America" is a wake up call. Even and especially for rabbis.
Imagine Anne Frank at 90
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 13, 2019
The story about Anne Frank that you have never heard.
Appreciation: Philip Roth belongs in canon of greatest American authors
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — May 23, 2018
(RNS) — Roth was a literary archaeologist who dug deep into his imagination and memory to re-create the American Jewish milieu of his youth.
Philip Roth, acclaimed and controversial novelist who probed Jewish themes, dies at 85
By Kimberly Winston — May 23, 2018
(RNS) — Though Roth was an avowed atheist, Judaism was a perennial theme in much of his work.
Thank you, Philip Roth
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 23, 2018
The greatest American Jewish writer has died. He was far more Jewish than he would have admitted to himself.
Jews feel stung that JCC bomb threat suspect is one of their own
By Lauren Markoe — March 23, 2017
(RNS) Many worry that the suspect’s identity will lend credence to the claim, put forward frequently by anti-Semites, that Jews exaggerate threats and crimes against them, while undercutting efforts to reduce anti-Semitism at a time when statistics show it is actually rising.
When it comes to hate, I will not ‘get over it’
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 20, 2016
When anti-Semitism strikes a friend and colleague, I will not be silent.
Philip Roth and his Jewish people
By Lauren Markoe — October 10, 2016
(RNS) Philip Roth has not 'come home' to the Jewish community. He never really left, writes Rabbi A. James Rudin.
Ralph Lauren is retiring. So too is his WASP-y Jewish era (COMMENTARY)
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 6, 2015
(RNS) Not every Jew wants to be an active Jew. But neither do they want to be something else, in order to lubricate their entrance into an upper-class world.
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