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May 29, 2026, 8:48 PM

Is America’s Golden Age of Jewish Life Unraveling?

For many of us, the period between 1970 and 2010 was not only the best of times for American Jewish life but also, it could be argued, the most comfortable time for Jews in the two thousand years of...

May 20, 2026, 8:04 PM

Between Fear and Pride: The Struggle for Visible Jewish Identity After Oct. 7

One of the positive trends since October 7 for the Jewish people has been stories of renewed Jewish identity. Reports of Jews attending synagogues, joining community activities and working on behalf of Israel for the first time in years have been...

May 13, 2026, 9:53 PM

Remembering Abe Foxman

When I started to work at ADL 55 years ago, with no intention to be there more than two or three years, it was the luckiest thing for me that there was a young lawyer at the organization, a...

Apr 21, 2026, 12:01 AM

Celebrating Israel at 78 amid unprecedented challenges

Israel celebrates Yom Ha’atzmaut this week, its 78th Independence Day. Since it comes so close this year to Yom HaShoah, one can't help but think of how different the Jewish reality is today, with all its challenges, compared to...

Apr 14, 2026, 5:43 PM

Preserving Holocaust Memory While Combating Today’s Antisemitism

As we commemorate Yom HaShoah at a time when the war with Iran remains unsettled and antisemitic violence continues to grow, avoiding the continuing diminution of the Holocaust while still learning from it for today's world is an ongoing...

Feb 20, 2026, 6:51 PM

How Jews Are Treated Differently

When anti-Israel sentiment started to grow around the world at the beginning of this century, partly as a long-term impact of the UN resolution declaring Zionism as a form of racism in 1975, Natan Sharansky addressed the issue as...

Feb 3, 2026, 12:20 AM

How Iran’s 1979 Revolution Targeted Jews—and Threatened Global Stability

As recent events demonstrate both the weakness and brutality of the Islamic regime of Iran, they point to the hope—and urgent need—to bring about its fall. In this context, it is appropriate to step back and examine the impact...

Jan 21, 2026, 9:20 PM

The Holocaust Is Being Used Against the Jews

As the annual day of Holocaust remembrance approaches, the challenges to meaningful reflection on the lessons of the Shoah continue to grow. As has been increasingly noted over the years, the combination of distance from World War II, the passing...

Dec 3, 2025, 10:51 PM

Israel’s Strategic Dilemma: The Risks and Rewards of Deeper US Involvement

Over the years, a variety of individuals—in Israel and in the United States in particular—have commented on how dependent the Jewish state has become on America. While the closeness between the two democratic nations has been a goal of...

Nov 21, 2025, 11:42 PM

Why Today’s Antisemitism is Different

It has been common to refer to the surge in antisemitism as fitting into the historic patterns of Jew-hatred. Particularly, there is the tendency to blame American Jews for what Israel does as part of an age-old impulse to...

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About Me

Kenneth Jacobson is Deputy National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.