Samuel J. Abrams
ARTICLES BY: Samuel J. Abrams
No Mayor Decides Who Belongs in New York
In December 2024, months before winning City Hall, Zohran Mamdani declared that, as mayor, New York would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he ever entered...
The GOP Base Still Stands With Israel; The Next Generation Is the Real Test
The Washington Free Beacon has just released data from a June survey of likely Republican primary voters which show continued strong support for the decades-long relationship between the...
There Is No More Hospitable City
After candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America swept New York’s Democratic primaries last week, the writer David Frum captured the strangeness of the moment...
A People That Once Argued With God: Why Are So Many Jews Not Speaking Up?
When a streamer chasing viral content confronted Jerry Seinfeld outside Madison Square Garden after a Knicks game and demanded that he say “Free Palestine,” Seinfeld declined and...
When a Child Begins to Carry the Tradition
A few months ago, on a busy Friday evening, I was moving a little too quickly. Dinner was coming together, the week had been long,...
The Students Are Consoling Us Now
Sarah Lawrence's commencement this year was a flat, joyless affair - few cheers, no hats in the air, a visible law enforcement presence, and a graduate student...
Renewing the Covenant
This fall, the Rosenthal-Levy Scholars program enters its second year at the Hamilton School at the University of Florida and welcomes its inaugural cohort at the University...
Recognizing Shabbat Is Not Establishing a Religion
The backlash to President Trump’s “Shabbat 250” proclamation reveals something deeper than disagreement over a single president or a single ceremonial gesture. It reveals how uneasy a...
The Case for Israel Will Be Won at Homes and Kitchen Tables, Not on Social Media
The Harvard Institute of Politics released its 52nd Youth Poll. Most of the headlines focused on the despair - only 13 percent of Americans aged 18...
To Fight Antisemitism, Rebuild the Core Curriculum
Walk into almost any college classroom today and try a simple exercise: ask students to explain when, why, and by whom the modern state of...
How to Respond to the Moment: After the Rupture, the Rebuild
I often teach with photographs. In my Politics and geography course, I not only present arguments, data, figures, and charts, I show pictures – of...
How to Improve and Build US-Israel Ties for the Long-Term
The current war with Iran, sparked by US-backed Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear and military sites, will have consequences far beyond the battlefield. Most of...
Why Vanderbilt Is Getting Jewish Life Right and Others Aren’t
This spring, at Vanderbilt University, more than 600 students gathered for a Passover seder - not in a campus center or dining hall, but on the football...
Before They Can Defend It, They Must Know It
Before Passover, I took my son to Borough Park to buy a new Haggadah, part of a small annual ritual and one more way into...
