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David E. Bernstein

Aug 5, 2026, 8:12 PM

Antisemitic Bullies at American Universities

An under-discussed aspect of the wave of far-left antisemitism on university campuses in the United States is the psychology of bullying. Anyone who was once a child (!) knows that a fair number of people really, really enjoy bullying...

Aug 5, 2026, 4:13 AM

The Pathology of Hatred Devoid of Facts

There is a pathological sickness spreading through much of the Western world. It has abandoned reason, rejected individual judgment, and replaced both with blind ideological hatred. The following incident is an example of Sinat Chinam, the Hebrew phrase that means...

Aug 4, 2026, 6:09 AM

The Enemy Is Ziophobia

Outbound platform at Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA. Image © bdamon, 2013. Licensed under CC BY 2.0. Source: Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

When Home No Longer Feels Like Home When I moved to Brookline, Massachusetts, nearly two decades ago, it was widely known as one of America’s most Jewish and pro-Israel towns. Today, it feels different. I see visibly more Muslims. More women wearing...

Marina Rosenberg

Aug 1, 2026, 9:57 AM

Antisemitism is now the baseline, not a spike

On the last night of Hanukkah, a gunman opened fire on a candle-lighting celebration on Bondi Beach, killing Rabbi Eli Schlanger and fourteen others. I had been in Sydney just a week earlier for the first-ever J7 Task Force Against Antisemitism Summit...

William Barclay

Aug 1, 2026, 9:42 AM

Canaries, Coalmines, and Canada’s National Collapse

Illustrative: Anti-Israeli demonstrators wave Palestinian flags during a protest in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 9, 2023. (Cole Burston / AFP)

Since the most recent outbreak of the Israel-Palestine Conflict on October 7th 2023, countless pro-Israeli businesses and centres of Jewish life, such as community centres and schools, have been terrorized by gunshots, arson, and bomb threats, as well as...

Silas Anastacio

Jul 30, 2026, 4:01 AM

Israelite Confederation of Brazil Expands Global Role at Haifa Conference

The Brazilian Jewish Confederation (CONIB) took part in the Contemporary Antisemitism Conference Haifa 2026, held July 7–9 at the University of Haifa, Israel, presenting Brazil’s experience in monitoring, interpreting, and confronting contemporary antisemitism. With around 550 participants, including keynote...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Jul 29, 2026, 12:15 AM

The Holocaust and the Erasure of Europe’s Regional Jewish Foodways

Before the Second World War, Europe possessed no singular Jewish cuisine. It possessed a dense culinary geography whose boundaries often corresponded as closely to rivers, ports, mountain ranges, agricultural regions, and commercial routes as they did to political frontiers....

Hande Gençünal

Jul 28, 2026, 4:26 AM

Competing Fields, Young American Jewish Identity

I used Cameron Bernstein's sentence in my last piece, she prays for the people on that land but doesn't need to pray for the state. I read that sentence as evidence of AIPAC's institutional crisis. But looking at the...

Silas Anastacio

Jul 28, 2026, 4:23 AM

Presenter Otávio Mesquita visits Jewish Immigration and Holocaust Memorial

This July, television presenter Otávio Mesquita visited the Jewish Immigration and Holocaust Memorial, located in the Bom Retiro neighborhood of São Paulo. The site, housed in the state’s first synagogue — founded in 1912 — has become one of...

Kenneth Jacobson

Jul 28, 2026, 4:09 AM

Antisemitism in America and How We Got Here

For years, experts talked about the success of Jewish life in America, particularly in comparison to the long, sorry history of Jews in the diaspora. At the same time, there were some who noted that things weren't all that great and linked...

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