New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani consistently claims that Israel’s war in Gaza constitutes genocide. Gaza’s suffering is horrific and Israel’s conduct in some instances may be problematic, but that does not justify…
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The Blogs: A Response to Nick Fuentes’s Claims About Jews and Israel | Seth Eisenberg
In his recent viral interview with Tucker Carlson — now seen by more than four million people on YouTube — 27-year-old activist Nick Fuentes explained that his path toward deeply critical views of Jews and Israel began with what he…
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The Blogs: The ECCA and the Truth About Tuition Relief for Jewish Families | Benjamin G. Kelsen
The New Jersey gubernatorial election has prompted vigorous debate within the Jewish community about which candidate would better serve the interests of the local Jewish community. Among the arguments advanced for supporting Jack Ciattarelli,…
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The Blogs: Why Mamdani Is Wrong: Gaza May Be Horrific, But It Is Not Genocide | Alfred A. Marcus
By Alfred Marcus
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani consistently claims that Israel’s war in Gaza constitutes genocide. Gaza’s suffering is horrific and Israel’s conduct in some instances may be problematic, but that does…
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The Blogs: Why Israel’s Democratic Crisis Is Not the Haredim’s Fault | Yochanan Schimmelpfennig
A State in Fixation: Why Israel’s Democratic Crisis Is Not the Haredim’s Fault
The recent ultra-Orthodox protest in Jerusalem was not the cause of a rupture in Israeli democracy. It was a mirror reflecting a deeper, older structural…
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The Blogs: When to Be Flexible and When to Stand Firm | Nitzan Bergman
Lech Lecha introduces us to one of the most extraordinary figures in human history. The Rambam calls him “the pillar of the world,” and God calls him “My beloved.” We know him as Avraham Avinu — Abraham, our father — a name that…
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The Blogs: I Asked ChatGPT Why I Study Political Communication | Shira Tamir
I started my Master’s this week in Political Communication at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
I asked ChatGPT to help me figure out what it is that fascinates me so much about politics, media, and communication. Why was I studying this?
At…
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The Blogs: The Right to Speak | Claire R. Bright
A Belfast story about antisemitism, rehabilitation, and who is allowed to be heard.
In June 2024, I travelled to Belfast to speak at the Irish North–South Criminology Conference. My subject was familiar — returning to faith and community,…
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The Blogs: Noah And Abraham in Islam and Judaism | Allen S. Maller
Prophets Noah and Abraham are being discussed in synagogues world-wide at this time of the year. Most Jews do not know about the insights of these two men as described in the Qur’an and later books of Islamic scholars. The Muslim…
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The Blogs: The Abolitionist Imagination – Part VI: The Anabaptist | Ed Gaskin
While Catholic, Reformed, and mainline Protestant voices were often divided — some defending slavery, others opposing it — the Radical Reformation and its allied dissenting traditions stood apart for their clarity and consistency. Among…
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