Kamala’s Hillary Moment
Kamala addressed students at George Mason to mark National Voter Registration Day.
The Triumph and Tragedy of Jewish Self-Liberation
Ruth Wisse’s new memoir tells of the flowering of Jewish literature and of witnessing the miracle of Israel. But she is just as interested in the revival of anti-Semitism and Jewish indifference or complicity in the war on their own people.
On Visible and Invisible Jews
We all know that raw prejudice among Jews against those who are visibly Jewish—that they are loud, rude, unwashed, contemptuous towards outsiders and all the rest of that baggage—is our community’s dirty secret.
“Jewish Nose” Jokes aren’t Funny. In Fact, they’re Dangerous
A political candidate in Virginia, a television game show host, and a Washington, D.C. historian seem to think that jokes about “Jewish noses” are funny.
Why was the Jewish Response to Durban a Failure?
Twenty years ago, a U.N. conference against racism was hijacked by a revival of the “Zionism is racism” canard. You can draw a straight line from there to the way critical race theory legitimizes anti-Semitism today.
Time for Both Parties to Repent for their Nazi Analogies
A Jewish GOP Senate candidate was roasted for comparing vaccine mandates to the Gestapo. Democrats who have used such analogies about Republicans are not in a position to talk.
When Anti-Semitic Lunatics Take Control of the Academic Asylum
A new literary weapon by Andrew Pessin is a sparkling and savagely satirical novel about campus “cancel culture.”
J Street’s Atheist Rabbi Named Harvard’s Chief Chaplain
Where Greg Epstein’s influence may well be felt, I fear, is on Jewish students’ perceptions of Israel, the Holocaust and anti-Semitism.
Accosted by a Hater: What Would you Do?
We are bound to engage in soul-searching about how we might balance the duty to our own safety and the safety of those in our care with the impulse to defend our integrity from those who want to humiliate us.
Why the Crown Heights Pogrom Still Matters
Thirty years ago, anti-Jewish violence was prompted by the idea that Jews were privileged. The rise of critical race theory makes the tragedy an important lesson in enabling anti-Semitism.