In the wake of the Tucker Carlson interview with Nick Fuentes and the global eruption of anti-Zionism after the October 7th massacre, we can see how badly our language fails to capture the hostility facing Jews today. These two moments differ in…
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Why Jew-Hatred Isn’t Just ‘Anti-Semitism’
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A Sacred Place
A few hours before I went into labor with my first child, I told my husband that I was going to go take the last uninterrupted nap of my life. It was said in jest but I could not have understood how true that would…
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MAGA Antisemitism Fails with Conservative Christians
In the last couple of weeks, the Republican Party has been torn over questions of antisemitism and free speech after the MAGA influencer Tucker Carlson gave a friendly interview to Nick Fuentes, a Nazi sympathizer and an open antisemite. Senator…
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Niqab in Academia? A Question of Reciprocity
In November 2025, the Adalah Center, which advocates for the rights of the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel, filed a lawsuit in the Tel Aviv District Court against Bar-Ilan University. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Hala Odeh, an optometry…
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The Cracks in the Wall: How Oct 7 Fractured A Millennial Certainty
For years, amillennial theology gave many believers a sense that the story was sewn up—clean, coherent, centered on Christ. It told them that Israel’s land, identity, and covenant vocation had all finished their arc in the church, like…
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It Takes a Village – One Family’s Alzheimer’s Journey
Dealing with an Alzheimer’s diagnosis can feel very isolating, and it’s important to know that you are not alone. I’m grateful for this opportunity to share my family’s journey during Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. My mom, an intelligent and…
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We Need to Talk About Holocaust Education
Predictably, the remarks Sarah Hurwitz made about Holocaust education at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America were quickly repackaged, recontextualized, and weaponized by progressive Jewish spaces already inclined…
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‘Lousy Like Usual’ Is No Longer a Jewish Option
From Torah and Talmud to today’s Israel and Diaspora, our tradition demands more from leaders than the mediocrity we’ve learned to accept. If you read Jewish history honestly, it’s hard to avoid a painful conclusion. Most of the time, our…
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From My Tower in Jerusalem, I’m Watching Democracy Put Itself in Handcuffs
By Dr. Shmuel Legesse: Upcoming Author of Moral Diplomacy for a Broken World: Inspired by the Vision of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks When I first came to New York City from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, I thought democracy smelled like roasted nuts and subway…
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As A Jew: How today’s challenges are rooted in Yaakov & Channukah
I have been studying Rav Yitzchak Hutner’s writings on the holidays this year with a small group. They are deep and illuminating and help make otherwise esoteric aspects of our Chaggim become fascinating facets imbued with evocative symbolism….
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