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Jewish advocates are treating a recent decision as a repudiation of Jewish civil rights in America. See, e.g., The Anti-Zionism Exception: A court decision just carved Jews out of civil rights law. However, this holding needs to be properly…

In the geography of the sacred, there is a quiet but profound movement from the visible to the invisible. If the garments of the High Priest represent our public interface—the uniform of responsibility—then the Menorah and the Ketoret…

Two Democracies, One Playbook

Last Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States did something unremarkable by the standards of any healthy democracy: it told a president no. In a 6-3 ruling authored by Chief Justice John Roberts — a…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the master of limbo politics. No matter where you set the bar, he can go lower. The latest example is his smear of former President Joe Biden for Israeli battlefield losses, which is not just…

The recent High Court decision to expand and regularize the egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall (Ezrat Yisrael), has led to a predictably vocal, hysterical reaction on the part of the Haredi and Hardali leadership. Led by MK Avi…

A growing perception among certain Jewish leaders suggests that the fight against antisemitism is failing because antisemitism still exists. That argument rests on the wrong metric.

Eradication was never the goal. Antisemitism is a recurring…

My colleague Jay Solomon recently wrote about the impact on Jewish students and Jewish identity of treating “Zionist” as a slur.  He shares illustrations of their experiences on campus and how students are pushing back on narratives that…

A new study came out today on a topic that has been all too ignored in the religious Zionist and Modern Orthodox communities, communities that should have cared most about this topic.

In the past two years, thousands of second and…

I write as an Ethiopian Jewish Israeli American a member of an ancient Black Jewish community whose bond to the Jewish people predates modern Christianity, modern Islam, and certainly modern American politics. I have lived in Africa, Israel,…

Sometimes, all it takes to change the world is one person.

You have the power. One person.

Maimonides says, that a person should always look at the world as if it is perfectly balanced, and just one good deed can tip the scales and bring…