Matt Sienkiewicz

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Feb 1, 2017, 7:46 PM

The Holocaust, Israel, and Trump’s Jewish Myopia

After a weekend of controversy, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was no doubt well-prepared on Monday to explain why the President had removed any mention of anti-Semitism in his statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Spicer began by reiterating...

Feb 16, 2016, 7:35 PM

Bernie, Israel, and the failure of the American Jewish community

Sanders is a J-Street kind of guy, who sidesteps his Zionist identity to avoid polarized debate on the Jewish state

Jul 11, 2014, 7:17 PM

War Season and the Cycle of Jewish Life

To live as a Jew is to submit oneself to the cyclical nature of the universe. Days, weeks, months, years and even millennia move in circles. Each Sabbath returns us to day one of creation. Each new year offers...

Jan 8, 2013, 12:56 AM

Hagel and the Jewish lobby: The (half) truth hurts

Despite living in a place of unprecedented acceptance and prosperity, American Jews are taught from birth to watch out for anti-Semitism. We’re not quite as Holocaust-centric as popular critics and novelists sometimes make us out to be, but it...

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Matt Sienkiewicz is professor of Communication and International Studies at Boston College