Naya Lekht, at The Blogs

Oct 25, 2021, 6:50 AM

The Sound is Loud and Clear: Will Jews Listen?

The book jacket of David Baddiel’s new must-read Jews Don’t Count reads: “How identity politics failed one particular identity.” In it, Baddiel details the ways in which Jews, despite marching for every minority, have been jarringly left out, at...

Jul 3, 2021, 12:08 AM

The Crisis in Jewish Education

Within Jewish families in North America, one reason to send kids to Jewish day schools, and/or to Jewish youth programs is to avoid anti-Israel bias in the classroom. This strategy, however, has proven to not only be ineffective, but...

Mar 14, 2019, 10:08 PM

Anti-Semitism for Dummies: A Visual Guide

Termed the “longest hatred,” there are currently over five leading definitions for anti-Semitism. They exist because anti-Semitism is a virus that mutates and takes on various forms, thereby making it, at times, difficult to identify. And because there are...

Oct 31, 2018, 3:15 PM

After Pittsburgh, America Says No to Anti-Semitism

I teach a class on Crime and Punishment, in which we begin by reading Dostoevky’s eponymous novel and move on to examine the dangerous intersection between ideology and politics that impacted two of the leading totalitarian regimes of the...

Jul 23, 2018, 12:38 AM

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In the struggle for cultural preservation, ritual triumphs

Illustrative: Russian-speaking Jewish Americans at Limmud FSU in Princeton, NJ (Courtesy Ross Den)

Jokes and borscht from my parents' Russia pale in comparison to the customs and practices of Judaism

Dec 3, 2017, 10:15 PM

Inclusion for All But the Jews: Mining Academia for Anti-Semitism

“Inclusion for All, Except the Jews” is the title of a talk I delivered at a conference, in which I spoke about the urgent matter of anti-Semitism on college campuses. My goal was not to devolve into a diatribe...

About Me

Naya Lekht obtained her PhD in Russian literature from UCLA. Naya writes on Russian-Jewish literature, the Holocaust in the Soviet context, and contemporary anti-Semitism. Most recently, Naya has joined as Director of Education at Club Z Institute.