Jake Dell

Jan 23, 2025 | americanreformer.org | Jake Dell

Congress chartered the National Cathedral. After Bishop Marianne Budde’s blatant politicization of the National Day of Prayer on Tuesday, Congress should revoke that charter. Bishop Budde used her congressionally chartered pulpit to bully the president on transgenderism and illegal immigration. The bishop should know better. The first perverts God’s law, and the second the law of nations. But that would be asking too much.

Jul 7, 2023 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Jake Dell |Baldomero Fernandez |Adam Richman

The past fif­teen years have been a boon for cook­books, mem­oirs, and his­to­ries about Ashke­nazi Jew­ish food whose pages may as well be drip­ping in the schmaltz and pick­le juice they describe.

May 9, 2023 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Maron L. Waxman |Jake Dell |Baldomero Fernandez |Adam Richman

By – May 15, 2023 For New York­ers of a cer­tain age, Kib­b­itz & Nosh will kin­dle warm mem­o­ries. Leaf­ing through Mar­cia Brick­er Halperin’s pho­tographs imme­di­ate­ly recalls pick­ing up your tray, pro­ceed­ing to the line, and, often with much dif­fi­cul­ty, select­ing your meal from a dizzy­ing array of choices.

May 4, 2023 | truthscript.com | Jake Dell

Reconquista, or, reconquest, is a fraught term. Historically, it refers to the seven centuries of military campaigns to expel Arab Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. With the steady recapture of land, also came efforts at Christian repopulation. The Reconquista ended in 1492, a fateful year, which also saw Columbus’s discovery of the New World, and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain.