“The ability of an individual halakhist to bring about a change depends…on one’s ability to foresee the opposition of one’s peers to one’s innovation”
…the ability of an individual halakhist to bring about a change depends, to a...
Category Archives: Jews
“The phenomenon of a minority people arising out of the ashes of Auschwitz to reframe not only their world but to also profoundly impact the broader culture may best summarize this century of Jewish influence”
…out of the trauma and tragedy of the earlier decades of the 20th century,...
“Nearly 80 years after Kristallnacht, we are not exactly sure what a Nazi is, or should be”
When Adolf Hitler’s party emerged from Bavaria with a philosophy called “Nationalsozialismus,” two of...
“Diaspora Jews must learn, not shun, intersectional discourse in all its forms and be part of the discussion while not being afraid to challenge instances of exclusionary intersectionality”
On too many college campuses, political activists embrace exclusionary intersectionality. Jewish students have reported...
“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...
“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...