About Rachel Shukert
What Do Jew Do on Christmas: Rachel Shukert, Author
Author Rachel Shukert shares her thoughts on being a Jew on Christmas. Read More
Amsterdam Dispatch
Well, I’m here again, heading up Jewcy’s Amsterdam bureau, and figured I’d give you a nice old fashioned dispatch. Perhaps in all of Western Europe, Amsterdam is the most Jewish of cities. Any local will tell you as much, in … Read More
Young Jews and Israel: It’s Complicated
Last week, I had the pleasure of appearing in Westchester before a lovely synagogue reading group (and an even lovelier platter of Nova lox, replete with capers, cherry tomatoes and tasteful slivers of red onion) to discuss my book. I … Read More
The Protocols: Like Medieval Poland, the American South is Desperate for Jews
Well folks, my summer of traveling just ended with a brief visit to my ancestral home of Omaha, Nebraska. Despite the fact that I was there for ostensibly professional reasons (I was honored to participate in the fantastic annual Omaha … Read More
The Protocols: Anti-Semites We Love
Hello, and welcome to “Anti-Semites We Love!” It’s a new semi-regular feature here in the Protocols, when every few weeks I’ll take some time out from furiously cataloguing the various ways in which Jews hate themselves and give some attention … Read More
The Protocols: How the Jews of Europe Became Mascots and Souvenirs
Hello Semites and anti-Semites! (Is that like matter and antimatter? Kind of, except instead of totally and mutually annihilating each other they seem to have maintained an antagonistic, yet symbiotic relationship for centuries, deathless and regenerating, occupying the others mind … Read More
The Protocols: Are Jews to Aquatics what African-Americans are to Basketball?
I’m sorry. I really am. I had an entirely different column outlined for this week, all about interpreting the book and recent film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited through the lens of the twentieth century American Jewish experience (the striving, the … Read More
The Protocols: Harry Potter and the Order of the Jews
“Guess what?” My mother sounded positively bubbly–I hadn’t heard her this excited since her latest colonoscopy came back clean. “Harry Potter is Jewish!” “Harry Potter is a fictional character,” I explained patiently. “But if Harry Potter had a religion, I’m … Read More
The Protocols: An Introduction
Shortly before the beginning of seventh grade, when I entered the public school system for the first time after spending my earliest formative years at Nebraska’s only Jewish day school (student body: 37), my mother came to me with a … Read More
Why ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ Remains the Scariest Young Adult Novel Ever Written
I was quite small, perhaps eight, when it occurred to me how deeply I disliked the other children. I mean, it wasn’t as if I had wanted them dead or anything; it just didn’t seem as though we had much … Read More