Hanukkah Marks the Complexities of Assimilation and Syncretism Faced by American Jews
Hanukkah isn’t for everyone. This has been true since its beginnings, as it celebrates victory…
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High Holidays Watch: Seth Rogen’s Latest Highlights the ‘American Pickle’ of Living with Death
Warning: Spoilers ahead I dare say that nobody decides to watch the new Seth…
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Keep Jews Interesting: It’s Time to Stop Being Defined by Anti-Semitism
The recent publication of Bari Weiss’ new book on anti-Semitism and “bedbug-gate” have emphasized the troubling place the Jewish community has found itself in, embodied by Jewish historian Arthur Hertzberg’s proclamation that “The only thing more dangerous for Jews than anti-Semitism is no anti-Semitism.”
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How a Bill O’Reilly Bestseller Helps Explain the Anti-Semitism Behind the Poway Shooting
O’Reilly and Dugard’s interpretation of the gospels in Killing Jesus was motivated by the same politics of resentment that Trump inherited from the Tea Party—a politics of fiscal, ethnic/racial, and religious conservatism.
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After Synagogue Attack, Some Evangelicals Finally Owning Their Part in White Christian Nationalism
Taking ownership of an ideology that has spawned—and will continue to spawn—extremist groups or lone wolves might be the best to way to eradicate it.
Read MoreHow a 15th Century Book on Witchcraft Helps Make Sense of Trump’s Bizarre Baby Execution Story
When Trump claims that women and their doctors are wrapping, rocking, and then cruelly executing babies, he is engaging in a complex narrative rhetoric designed to both titillate and mobilize those in power against those whom they hate.
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Why I Wrote the Freedom Seder And Why It’s Still Necessary 50 Years After Dr. King’s Assassination
Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1968, the transformation of my life began with the…
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The Convergence of Passover and Easter Can Leaven (or Unleaven) the Interfaith Family’s Holiday
As almost everyone who still has a wall calendar (does anyone still have a wall…
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‘Don’t Call Me Black No More, I’m an Israelite’: Kendrick Lamar, Black Hebrew Religion, and Black Suffering
Kendrick Lamar’s fourth album, Damn, (stylized “DAMN”) has been number one on the Billboard charts for the…
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Douthat’s Wager: Go to Church, Even If You Don’t Believe
If you are a secular liberal who made your twice-yearly trip to church on Easter…
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