Winston Pickett
ARTICLES BY: Winston Pickett
Robert Wistrich: In Memoriam
For scholars, students, policy analysts, and the rest of us who struggle daily to understand the phenomenon of anti-Semitism, the death of Robert S. Wistrich...
The High Holidays Bring Us Together as a Community
Shwer zu sein a yid. It's difficult to be a Jew. This old Yiddish expression, often said wryly and with a hint of self-deprecation, succinctly sums...
The High Holidays Are a Time to Unplug
Many years ago, while living in New York, I studied with a young, dynamic rabbi who had recently received smicha from Yeshiva University. Still in...
Talking About Antisemitism
I have a confession: I am obsessed with antisemitism. Try as I might, I can't get away from it. It chases me. It pursues me. It...
Lenin’s Legacy: Why Jews Have Been Betrayed by the Radical Left
There are a few biographical details about Professor Robert Wistrich that people tend to overlook when evaluating the work of someone who is...
Antisemitism & Its Antidotes, Part V
How do you define a problem with antisemitism that seems to reside in the hazy domain of intellectual subtlety, inferred meaning and suppositions...
Antisemitism & Its Antidotes, Part IV
If talking about antisemitism - and by that I mean discussing or engaging with it as a subject in verbal or written form - poses...
Antisemitism & Its Antidotes, Part III
Part of the joy that comes with investigation and research is the intellectual ride. You've got your topic. You may even have a working hypothesis...
Antisemitism & Its Antidotes, Part II
This is part 2 of the "Antisemitism & its Antidotes" series. You can read part 1 here. Teaching can be the ultimate instructor. It is where...
Anti-Semitism & Its Antidotes
Tonight I begin teaching an eight-week course called "Anti-Semitism and its Antidotes: From Talk to Action" as a part of a Limmud-inspired, cross-communal...
High Priest of Jew-Hate is Gone, But Not His Ideas
For all the avalanche of analyses and op-eds since the death of Osama bin Laden, it is essential to remember one thing: antisemitism was at...
Germans Setting Shoah Memories in Stone
Last month, on a sunny pavement in the Wilhelmsdorf-Charlottenberg section of Berlin, some 40 people solemnly gathered outside a block of tidy, well-scrubbed residential flats...
Rejecting Extremes: Doing the Right Thing?
Much as even the casual tracker of antisemitic 'bimbo eruptions' could be forgiven for not being able to keep up with the latest Jew-baiting outbursts from...
The Depth of Antisemitism
When it comes to media reporting, the news that broke last week with the publication of Antisemitic Incidents Report 2010 offered a complex and disturbing picture. Most...
