Netty C. Gross-Horowitz

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May 8, 2018, 9:32 PM

The Chappaquiddick tragedy happened when I was just a kid. I knew something bad happened with Ted Kennedy and that someone died, not him. In those days, Orthodox Jews were Democratic voters and we were still grieving for RFK,...

Nov 30, 2017, 3:01 PM

Who was Simone Weil?

Simone Weil (1909-1943) is thought to be an important French philosopher and one of the New Left’s lead thinkers but she's also thought of as a colossal nudnik and very controversial. A limousine liberal who didn't use her limousine...

Nov 17, 2017, 12:26 PM

Chelmno and 500 years

Chelmno, the village turned death camp, is often overlooked but it should not be. Shameful things went on there -- most of which we shall never know. I doubt if anyone is alive today who remembers the place. Chelmno...

Oct 19, 2017, 6:51 PM

The 18th century

I've read two books recently about the Eighteenth Century and they couldn't be more different except that they came out around the same time, 2004-5, and show the supreme power of the Catholic church and the state over the...

Sep 26, 2017, 12:38 PM

Germany’s Election and History

With the latest results in Germany’s elections, I found myself thinking about the past. Despite our painful history, for years Israeli Jews have been living in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany and ever other Israeli cab driver has a...

Aug 24, 2017, 3:06 PM

Catskill Fever in the summer

Issac Bashevis Singer wrote a short story about it and the Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn broke his taboo about leaving 770 and went there. Did you know The Catskills were very Jewish and hip even at the turn...

Jul 7, 2017, 1:41 PM

Auschwitz and the German experience

“A Small Town Near Auschwitz” is a slim book by British professor Mary Fulbrook, published about five years ago by Oxford University Press It's about the Upper Silesian town of Bedzin (Bendin in Yiddish) and its 85,000 strong Jewish...

May 16, 2017, 11:57 AM

Refugees and us

There were always refugees but now there are new ones. Some of them come from Syria where a harsh war is being fought; some come from various places in Africa; some come from other places but always from somewhere...

May 9, 2017, 12:05 PM

It's ironic that the Austrian chancellor, Mr. Christian Kern, was invited to attend the official opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem. Austria’s role in the Holocaust was quite damning. Although they later portrayed...

Jun 8, 2016, 1:43 PM

Were the Windsors anti Semites?

Eighty years ago this year, King Edward the VIII, King of Great Britain, the Dominions and Emperor of India (also known as David), famously abdicated his throne for the woman he loved -- an, ambitious, super- thin, Baltimore gal...

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About Me

Netty C. Gross-Horowitz is a journalist who worked for many years at The Jerusalem Report Together with Susan M. Weiss, she is co-author of "Jewish Marriage and Divorce Israel's Civil War," published by Brandeis University Press and the University Press of New England, December 2012.