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Apr 23, 2024, 3:02 AM

Tel Aviv, Passover Eve, 2024

Chag Sameach. Happy holiday. What is supposed to be one of the most joyous holidays on the Hebrew calendar is anything but. Pesach (Passover), the holiday in which Jews celebrate our redemption from bondage and slavery, our freedom as individuals...

Oct 21, 2021, 10:33 AM

Useful Idiots with Beards (Part III)

In Part I and Part II of this piece, I argued that, throughout history, Jews who wished to “fit in” have been essential to the success of certain forms of antisemitism, conferring a veneer of legitimacy and respectability to...

Oct 19, 2021, 8:31 PM

Useful Idiots with Beards (Part II)

Part I discussed the fact that the role played by some Jews and some Jewish voices in facilitating antisemitism has often been downplayed because for too many the problem with antisemitism lies almost exclusively with right-wing expressions of it...

Oct 18, 2021, 9:34 AM

Useful Idiots with Beards (Part I)

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., at a news conference at the Capitol on June 24, 2019. J. Scott Applewhite | AP

As a doctoral student at Harvard Law School in the early 1990s, I had the opportunity to audit a course on feminist jurisprudence. On the very first meeting of the class, the professor asked the students to identify three...

Jun 19, 2021, 1:11 AM

Sorry Sarah, there’s no such creature

A colloquial expression in Hebrew to express something that is impossible is אין חיה כזאת meaning, literally, there's no such creature or there's no such thing. I was reminded of this expression when I read Sarah Silverman's Twitter post in...

Jun 7, 2021, 11:21 PM

Jewish Lives Matter

Pro-Palestinian protesters face off with a group of Israel supporters and police in a violent clash in Times Square on May 20, 2021 in New York City.
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Religious-based hate crimes in the United States are overwhelmingly anti-Jewish. In fact, anti-Jewish hate crimes are more than hate crimes against all other religious groups combined. This is not a feature of the most recent weeks but rather a...

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Professor Oren Gross is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Irving Younger Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and a Senior Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. He is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of international law and national security law.

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