Sara Yael Hirschhorn

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Jan 19, 2025, 4:04 PM

Where will you be when the hostages come home?

Illustrative: Raz Ben Ami is reunited with her three daughters at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, November 29, after being held hostage in Gaza by Hamas for 54 days. (Courtesy)

Bearing witness is a Jewish moral imperative: I don’t want to tell my Creator that I was shopping at Costco at this historic Exodus moment

Sep 4, 2024, 2:03 PM

The Cost of the American Jewish Vote

With the killing of the American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, held hostage by Hamas for 10 brutal months and ultimately murdered by his evil captors, the Biden-Harris administration have blood on their hands. Who can forget the palpable anguish and tireless...

Jun 11, 2024, 4:24 PM

The Israel-Hamas war could signal the end of the Black-Jewish alliance

Martin Luther King, Jr. (center) and Abraham Joshua Heschel (2nd from front right), march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 21, 1965
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Is the NAACP excluding the kinds of Jewish activists that founded it when it expands its focus to include international issues?

Oct 21, 2023, 4:47 PM

Something is rotten in the state of academe

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gather for a protest at Columbia University, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

The community of scholars has stood aside as ideological vitriol and even actual hate crimes have proliferated on campuses

Apr 20, 2021, 4:29 PM

Whither Israel education without Israel?

Taglit Birthright participants visit at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 18, 2014 (Flash90)

The pandemic-induced travel ban offers a chance to consider whether Israel trips offer not just profound feeling, but deep knowledge

Feb 15, 2013, 6:25 AM

En”Teitel”ed to Punishment?

The harsh sentencing of the convicted former American obscures the lenience meted out to native Israeli offernders

Nov 19, 2012, 5:00 AM

Ivory tower as battleground

Where sympathy for Israel has become a casus belli

Nov 13, 2012, 6:22 AM

Mr (Greater) Israel: Is this the new face of the Israeli right?

Is a radical activist turned body builder the new face of the Israeli right?

Nov 7, 2012, 7:33 PM

On November 7th, Why I’m Still an Undecided Voter

On the anti-climatic morning of November 7, the polls have closed, concession and acceptance speeches were delivered, balloons fell, campaign signs and festive bunting unceremoniously already discarded, and a newly re-elected president returns to the Oval Office. ...

Oct 18, 2012, 7:11 AM

I Saw You At…Mastercard? Adventures in Online Jewish Dating

“New Year, New Beginnings!” my Jewish mother gleefully suggested, quoting the old Jewish saying of “Change of Location, Change of Fortune” as a good omen for dating with my recent relocation to the East Coast. “And look,” she continued,...

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About Me

Dr. Sara Yael Hirschorn is Senior Research at the Comper Center for Antisemitism Studies and Lecturer at the Ruderman Program for American-Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa and a fellow of the Jewish People Policy Institute, Jerusalem. She is the author of the award-winning book, City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement (Harvard, 2017) and completing a new book on Zionism, Jewish Power, and Identity Politics Since 1967. Follow her on SaraHirschhorn1@X.