…the ability of an individual halakhist to bring about a change depends, to a certain extent, on his ability to foresee the […]
…out of the trauma and tragedy of the earlier decades of the 20th century, Jews redefined their image and reconstructed their roles […]
When Adolf Hitler’s party emerged from Bavaria with a philosophy called “Nationalsozialismus,” two of that word’s syllables were quickly repurposed by Hitler’s […]
On too many college campuses, political activists embrace exclusionary intersectionality. Jewish students have reported feeling unwelcome in certain social justice coalitions. In […]
Within social and economic justice movements committed to equality, we have not yet collectively come to terms with the centrality of antisemitism […]
Jews are not collectively accountable for the actions of all other Jews, any more than Muslims, African-Americans, or immigrants are. If you […]
If I live and work, as I do, in the kind of daily, intimate Black-Jewish coalitions that were a mainstay of the […]
Medieval Christian Europe persecuted its Jews because it considered them responsible for the alleged acts of completely different Jews in the Middle […]
Over years of speaking about White nationalism in the 1990s and early 2000s in the Northwest and then the Midwest and South, […]
As a narrative device in Hebrew, Yiddish, and other vernacular literatures, the tavern has served as a metonym for the rural Jewish […]
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