Are We Seeing the End of the ‘Good Arabs’ in Israel?
For anyone who follows the conflict in Israel/Palestine, the latest conflagration seems all too familiar….
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Decolonizing Jewish Studies Part II: A Response to the Backlash
Recently, we identified Jewish Studies scholarship that is sexist, racist, and cisheteronormative, arguing that neoliberal…
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Battle of Antisemitism Definitions is Actually a Proxy War For Criticism of Israel
Last month, a global consortium of leading scholars released the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA),…
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How Did Hasidic Jewry Become a Stronghold of Trumpism?
Is American Hasidism in crisis? After successfully rebuilding its institutions after the war, Hasidism in…
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In the Story of the New Testament We Are the Romans—No Matter Who Wins the Election
A number of years back, I heard something that changed my whole perspective on the…
Read MoreIf Not for AIPAC: What Ilhan Omar Should Have Said
I hope Rep. Omar is able to move forward after this unfortunate, second charge of anti-Semitism; to do less social media and more of what she was elected to do: legislate.
Read MoreRacism and Anti-Semitism Are Not Intrusions of a Dark Past Into Our Present
We add to the power of racism and anti-Semitism rather than resist them when we fail to acknowledge that the past lives through us.
Read MoreHigh Jewish Voter Turnout—and They Don’t Like Trump
Eighty-five percent of American Jews vote. In this fraught moment of broad political tensions and razor-thin margins, those votes become even more important.
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Trump’s Pathological Devotion to Border Walls Isn’t Political, It’s Theological
His hollow performances of Christian piety are so illegible because Trump’s object of worship isn’t the God of Abraham, or even the United States. To Trump, land borders themselves are holy, worth honoring with menacing shrines and protecting with the blood of innocents.
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How Religion Shaped American Jewish Masculinity
What inspired you to write Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism? There’s a story I…
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