Articles written by Howard Lovy
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One rabbi's lifesaving solution to help Odessa's vulnerable Jews: jerry-rigged car batteries
This winter, the city of Odessa, Ukraine, feels like the heart of darkness. The city is constant bombardment by the Russian military, freezing nighttime temperatures commonly fall below zero, and...
Before WWII, Jewish mobsters kept Nazis at bay in the US - with their fists
(JTA) — The way author Michael Benson tells it, one day in 1938, New York judge and Jewish communal leader Nathan Perlman sat at a bar and thought, “How come these Nazis get to march down 86th Str...
Anti-Semitism is strengthening the Jewish identity of young people-why haven't our organizations embraced them?
By Howard Lovy TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (JTA)—The year was 2000, and Michael Steinhardt had just dropped a bombshell that nearly brought an otherwise dignified conference to blows. “I tend, in my dourest moments, to consider both the Reform and Con...
