Jakob Levin, at The Blogs

Jakob Levin

Undergraduate Student at the University of Florida

Oct 29, 2021, 9:45 AM

"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad." — Winston Smith (1984, George Orwell, p. 142) As I write this post from Jerusalem, where I am...

Jun 5, 2021, 3:50 PM

A Portent For The Messianic Age

“Anti-trump vigil outside the White House, Lafayette Park, 11/12/16”

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When I was in high school, I attempted to write a story for my school's newspaper at the height of an election riddled with conspiracies, that failed to meet the threshold for what pertained to its mission. From my...

Apr 7, 2021, 3:10 PM

The Death of the Two-Party System on Yom HaShoah

Picture taken by author (2017) at the Belzec Extermination Camp, once the killing ground for Polish Jews and other peoples Nazi ideology saw as subservient, in what was the Lublin District of Nazi-occupied Poland.

Why I registered as a Libertarian. And why you should too if you actually love America and you care about human rights. January 6th is the ugliest stain on the United States' moral character since Jim Crow and is perhaps...

Jan 9, 2021, 12:39 AM

Why Talk About Unity Cannot Happen with Seditionists

A supporter of President Donald Trump carries a Confederate battle flag on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol near the entrance to the Senate after breaching security defenses, in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Theiler TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

In light of the Trumpist insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th, President-elect Biden's call for a "time to heal in America" seems like an unattainable future for America. This future can be recognized, but it requires the political...

Dec 11, 2020, 9:46 AM

The Failure of Holocaust Education in Jewish Day Schools

What 2020 taught me about how the American Jewish community is just a little too comfortable in our whiteness- and how we have a long ways to go to truly embodying "Never Again" 2020 is finally coming to a close...

About Me

Shalom! I'm Jakob Levin and I am currently a fourth-year at the University of Florida pursuing a B.A. in Political Science. I hail from Plantation, Florida, where I attended the Posnack School for 13 years but now that I am a Gator, I call Gainesville home (I am currently in Jerusalem studying at the Hebrew University for the semester). I am open-minded, driven, and passionate about topics that intersect with my American-Jewish identities. I study topics that deal with the parallels between modern anti-Semitism and American political extremism, and issues relating to security and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa. I write on issues pertaining to constitutional law, political violence, elections, and governance.

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