“White nationalists in the United States perceive the country as having plunged into unending crisis…”
Within social and economic justice movements committed to equality, we have not yet collectively...
Category Archives: Jews
“If you feel the need to interrogate every Jew and demand they denounce Israel (or any other Jews or Jewish actions) before allowing them into your space, you are a racist”
Jews are not collectively accountable for the actions of all other Jews, any more...
“…it was my organizing against antisemitism as a Black antiracist that first pulled me to the Jewish community, not the other way around”
If I live and work, as I do, in the kind of daily, intimate...
“Being progressive does not insulate you from falling prey to bigotry anymore than being conservative does…”
Medieval Christian Europe persecuted its Jews because it considered them responsible for the alleged...
“The public and private discussions I’ve had just in the past month suggest a hunger to understand antisemitism…”
Over years of speaking about White nationalism in the 1990s and early 2000s in...
“As a narrative device in Hebrew, Yiddish, and other vernacular literatures, the tavern has served as a metonym for the rural Jewish encounter with the local Christian population…”
As a narrative device in Hebrew, Yiddish, and other vernacular literatures, the tavern has...
“…how did a people that envisions itself in prayer as a community of tents, itinerant in the wilderness, become so fixated on construction projects?”
The fact that Oz is an outspoken opponent of occupation and the policies required...
“I want to know what my rabbi thinks of Jacob and Rachel, not of Pence and Pelosi”
I know outstanding rabbis on the left of the political spectrum and others on...
“I doubt there has been an increase in anti-Semitism as much as there has been an increase in the permissibility of the expressions of anti-Semitism and its amplification by the tools of social media”
I doubt there has been an increase in anti-Semitism as much as there has...
“…it is, I think, the biggest, the one most central to the debates within Orthodoxy today, and the most personal”
It is impossible to credit the claim that it doesn’t matter at all to...