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The Real Threat to Jewish Learning Isn’t the Screen; It’s the Institution
5+ hour ago (253+ words) But that is precisely where Eilath's essay has a conspicuous blind spot. He treats the institutional failures of American Jewish education as if they were primarily technological problems. They are not. They are failures of will, expectation, and communal priority…...
When Antisemitism Stops Pretending
1+ week, 1+ day ago (666+ words) Last week,I wroteabout how antisemitism at Sarah Lawrence College is routinely treated as background noise'acknowledged in theory, minimized in practice, and excused as political expression rather than confronted as civic failure. What has happened since makes that posture no…...
When Antisemitism Is Treated as Background Noise
2+ week, 5+ hour ago (552+ words) Universities have grown fluent in the language of harm. Administrators speak easily about hostile environments, symbolic violence, and the psychological burden of offensive imagery. In some cases, they act quickly: renaming buildings, removing art, or publicly acknowledging that no one…...
Anti-Semitism on the Couch
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1056+ words) Shortly after October 7, 2023, an Arizona-based group called the Jewish Therapist Collective'received'a sharp increase in calls from Jewish therapists. The collective is an online community that offers support to Jewish therapists and helps Jewish... The post Anti-Semitism on the Couch appeared…...
Jewish America’s Future Depends on All Its Communities — Not Just the Coasts
3+ week, 8+ hour ago (345+ words) American Jewish life has long been anchored in a small number of powerful metropolitan centers. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and a handful of others remain indispensable. They house national institutions, sustain Jewish education at scale, train professionals, and…...
After Bondi, What Hanukkah Really Means This Year
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (653+ words) Before Hanukkah (and before the Bondi Beach massacre), my son asked me'what the holiday is really about. Not the gifts, not the latkes, not even the oil that famously lasted eight days. "But what actually happened?" he pressed. He has…...
Hanukkah Is Not a Metaphor: It is a Lesson in Courage, Identity, and Resistance
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (756+ words) Jewish continuity has always depended on the willingness to assert what makes Judaism unique; to maintain practices others found peculiar, to preserve rituals others mocked, and to guard memories others sought to erase. The Maccabees were not champions of metaphor;…...
Ambivalence Is Not Leadership When Jews Are Targeted
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (1187+ words) Ambivalence may have its place in politics, but safeguarding the ability of Americans to enter their houses of worship without fear is not one of those places. It is a basic civic obligation, and it should never be negotiable. The…...
Two Jewish Moral Worlds: What the Mamdani Election Reveals
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (555+ words) When a single election lays bare a community's conscience, it deserves more than punditry. The recent victory of Zohran Mamdani in New York's Democratic primary was more than a political surprise. It was a sociological revelation " a moment that exposed…...
After Mamdani’s Victory, Jewish New York Must Wake Up
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (1083+ words) The calls and texts started pouring in well before the race was even called. Friends, colleagues, rabbis, and former students " people who rarely agreed on anything " shared the same sense of shock. "What happens now?" one message asked. "What does…...