Posts Tagged: American Jews
New Exhibit Exploring Relationship Between Jews, American Democracy Opens in NYC
A new exhibition at the Center for Jewish History in New York City explores 250 years of Jewish participation in American democracy, from the Revolutionary...
Why I’m Hopeful About America’s Jewish Community — and You Should Be Too
Let's get the obligatory acknowledgment out of the way quickly, because it deserves exactly that much space: yes, antisemitism is rising, campuses have been ugly,...
The Most Dangerous Word After ‘Antisemitism’
Every generation invents new excuses for tolerating antisemitism. Increasingly, the hatred itself is left unstated. Instead, what changes is the justification for qualifying it: the...
‘Never Again’ Requires More Than Remembering the Holocaust
This week, two seemingly unrelated stories unfolded hundreds of miles apart. In Massachusetts, a middle school principal apologized after a mandatory Holocaust lesson purportedly left some...
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...
Children Don’t Absorb Jewish Life Automatically — They Need to Ask Questions
In my work, I spend a great deal of time talking to students about being Jewish. And what I've noticed is that our community operates under...
A Warning From History: Conspiracies About Jews Never Stop There
I am a Jew, and I feel exhausted by antisemitism. How about you? Throughout my work in media, politics, advocacy, public speaking, and community engagement,...
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...
Are You Doing Everything You Can to Reach Out to Your Fellow Jews?
While Israel and the US have been fighting against Iran side-by-side over the past few months, I heard the story of an Air Force cadet...
‘Brazen Attacks’: Antisemitism Turns Increasingly Violent in the West
Across North America and Europe, antisemitism appears to be entering a new, more dangerous phase, with Jewish communities facing a growing wave of shootings, assaults,...
Antisemitism Exploding on the Far-Right: The Conspiracy Theory Doesn’t Need an Event Anymore
In April 2026, Dan Bilzerian -- a social media personality with 29.6 million Instagram followers -- filed to run for the US Congress against incumbent...
Not Stupidity — Something Worse: Why the ‘Israel Controls America’ Myth Keeps Spreading
In a recent post, Donald Trump took aim at Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Joe Kent, calling them “low IQ” and “losers,” and asking...
The Era of Pointing Fingers Is Over: Jews Must Unite
For decades, the American Jewish community operated under an incorrect assumption: we were strong enough to remain siloed. The center-left focused on their spaces, the...
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...
