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The Jews of Privilege

The Global Pogrom

Neo-Totalitarianism and the Erasure of History

Bob Dylan Is America’s Greatest Jewish Artist

Featured Work

We Need Cancel Culture to Fight Hate and Antisemitism, but Must Limit Its Abuse

February 24, 2021

With Trump Gone, the Jewish Left and Right Must Unite Against Antisemitism

January 29, 2021February 20, 2021

How Gal Gadot Is Changing the Image of the Jewish Woman

January 29, 2021February 20, 2021

Why Did Trump Succeed in the Middle East? Simple: He’s a Terrible Person

January 4, 2021

Reckoning With Obama’s Jewish Problem

December 2, 2020

25 Years Later: Silence and the Rabin Assassination

November 5, 2020February 20, 2021

Deplatforming the Campaign to Deplatform the Jews

October 23, 2020February 20, 2021

Peter Beinart, the New York Times and the Coming Campaign to Eliminate Israel

October 7, 2020October 9, 2020

Antisemitism’s Long March Through the Institutions

September 29, 2020

A (Cautious) Defense of Identity Politics

September 20, 2020September 22, 2020

Struggling With the Settlements: A Response

September 20, 2020September 22, 2020

Zionism, Messianism, and the Question of the Settlements

September 20, 2020September 22, 2020

Zionism, Zioness, and the Fight for a Better Left

September 20, 2020September 22, 2020
Bob Dylan performs at Massey Hall, in Toronto, Canada, April 18, 1980. Photo: Jean-Luc Ourlin via Wikimedia Commons.

Bob Dylan Is America’s Greatest Jewish Artist

July 29, 2020September 10, 2020

History and Happenstance – Counterpoint Interview

July 20, 2020August 25, 2020

The Necessary Means: The Black-Jewish Divide

July 16, 2020September 7, 2020

The Jews of Privilege

July 9, 2020October 6, 2020
Photo by Edward Howell on Unsplash.

Neo-Totalitarianism and the Erasure of History

June 26, 2020September 10, 2020

Christopher Hitchens’ Jewish Problem

June 1, 2020September 22, 2020

The Plague and a God of Absolute Freedom

March 30, 2020September 10, 2020

Why Anti-Zionism Is Worse Than Antisemitism

October 23, 2019August 16, 2020
A banner by the progressive group Zioness. Photo: Zioness.

An Attack on Zioness Is an Attack on True, Needed Supporters of Israel

September 12, 2019August 16, 2020

American Jews Have Nowhere to Go

July 25, 2019September 10, 2020
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Photo: Leopaltik1242/Wikimedia Commons.

Ilhan Omar and the Axis of Antisemitism

March 10, 2019September 10, 2020

Michelle Goldberg, Anti-Zionism, and Ahavat Yisrael

December 11, 2018October 2, 2020
A pro-Israel rally counters the 2017 “Al Quds Day” march in London. Photo: Screenshot

Toward a Judaism of Resistance

June 4, 2018October 8, 2020

The Promise of Israel’s New Orthodox Cinema

August 21, 2017September 10, 2020
Leonard Cohen in Perth, Australia, November 2013. Photo: Adrian Thomson / flickr

A Blaze of Light in Every Word: A Kaddish for Leonard Cohen

December 1, 2016September 10, 2020
Banner Photo: Yossi Zamir / Flash90

Why Did It Take Israelis So Long to Love Shimon Peres?

October 1, 2016September 10, 2020
Banner Photo: Evgeny Davydov / Wikimedia

Could Houellebecq’s World Really Happen?

December 1, 2015August 25, 2020

Tel Aviv’s Children of the Night

July 15, 2015December 11, 2020
Benjamin Netanyahu

How Will History Remember Netanyahu?

April 15, 2015August 25, 2020

Europe’s Wave of Anti-Semitism Can Be Stopped. Here’s How.

March 15, 2015September 10, 2020

Charlie Hebdo and the Future of Europe

February 1, 2015September 10, 2020

The Global Pogrom

August 1, 2014September 10, 2020

Valley of the Giants

July 1, 2014September 10, 2020

Ariel Sharon, the Last Lion of Judaea

January 1, 2014September 10, 2020

The Beautiful Light: A Contemplation Of Terrence Malick

December 19, 2013September 10, 2020

Sometimes You Just Have to Go It Alone

October 1, 2013August 25, 2020

‘Hatikva’ Keeps Its Edge, Despite Everything

September 15, 2013November 23, 2020
The Eish Hatorah building in the Old City of Jerusalem (photo credit: CC BY צביה)

In the US, looking through the poor of Israel

August 2, 2012September 20, 2020

From fire to inferno: Moshe Silman’s lesson for Israel

July 16, 2012September 10, 2020

Smokescreen

August 22, 2011September 10, 2020

Imperfect

July 29, 2011September 10, 2020

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