Shoshanna Leon, at The Blogs

Shoshanna Leon

Jul 6, 2025, 5:24 AM

No matter your stance on the NY mayoral candidate, any Jew should be able to recognize the dilemma of ambiguous racial categories

Jul 1, 2025, 4:29 PM

The Body Is the First Witness: After the Sirens

Resilience is the Jewish origin myth – it's the communal narrative through which all interpersonal stories must ascend and is perhaps our greatest moral expectation. We have come to define ourselves by how well we recover from trauma, our...

May 1, 2025, 9:53 AM

Aesthetics of Collapse: Kahanists and Meshichistin

Miami Beach. 8 p.m. I’m sitting under the stage lights at a JCC, already weary, realizing I’d been slotted into a lineup built for zingers—shallow talking points delivered in ninety-second bursts, dressed up as discourse. I’m mentally triaging my...

Apr 24, 2025, 1:28 PM

Aesthetic Containment of Bezalel Smotrich

I’m lying on the reformer, mid-Pilates session, in a new workout set already soaked through. My thighs are shaking, breath shallow, but I’m still talking—urgent, fast. “This is the year of the short kings,” I say, pushing through another...

About Me

Shoshanna Leon is a Wexner Heritage Fellow, board member of JAFINA, and member of JFNA’s Cabinet. She writes on language, politics, feminism, and Jewish identity—drawing from academic study, personal experience, and community leadership to explore the tensions shaping Jewish life in Israel and the diaspora.

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