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Elana Hornblass Dushey

Dec 29, 2023, 7:42 PM

Wartime Israelis and America’s cultural crisis

America is suffering from a cultural sickness: A deeply embedded moral cowardice manifested in unapologetic Jew hatred-from the smugness of Ivy league presidents who remain at their posts, to the backward and discriminatory policies of DEI, to the ignorant pro-Palestinian...

Nov 1, 2023, 10:01 AM

Destroying hostage posters and the antisemitic mob

On October 7th Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel, targeting, and inflicting such savagery on Israeli civilians that, for a moment, it felt like the world gasped in horror and expressed sympathy for its victims. That collective, sympathetic gasp was so fleeting...

Mar 25, 2020, 6:02 AM

Comfort And Outrage Needed In Equal Measure

Some weeks ago I returned from my first AIPAC policy conference and actively tried to evaluate my impressions of the conference that I had been told was “just awesome” and that I had wanted to attend for years. On...

About Me

Elana is an Adjunct at The MirYam Institute. She earned her PhD in English Literature from Fordham University in 2015 with a dissertation that focused on Jewish American literature and its approach to Zionism and Israel. For 12 years, she taught literature, composition, and film at St. Johns University and Fordham University, where she was awarded numerous fellowships. Following her degree, she was a Connected Academic Fellow in the Modern Language Association. Elana also writes fiction, most notably children’s fiction, and lives in New Jersey with her husband and three children, as a member of a vibrant Jewish community that is dedicated to Israel and other Jewish causes.