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Sep 3, 2026, 7:57 PM

A Queen’s Gambit: The Sacrifice And The Message

Politics is often spoken through dog-whistles. According to the Blue Square Alliance, "…dog whistles are coded signals–phrases, numbers, or symbols–that carry a hidden meaning. To most people they look harmless, but to those inside extremist circles they are instantly recognizable…The...

Andrew Esensten

Sep 3, 2026, 2:23 PM

Police violence against African Hebrew Israelites must stop

Ben Brownlee was harassed by a police officer while singing outside of the Be'er Sheva central train station in July. (Courtesy)

Yahdeen White went to a club in Eilat last month looking to have a good time. By the end of the night, the 38-year-old was bloodied, bruised, and traumatized — the victim of a vicious police beating. “They beat me...

Masimba Musodza

Aug 30, 2026, 11:51 AM

Nothing Racist About Ali G

A few days ago, I came across a trailer of the forthcoming Ali G movie. Maybe forthcoming is not the right word, because it looks like the movie, which returns one of Sacha Baron Cohen's characters to the screen...

Steve Glickstein

Aug 26, 2026, 4:54 AM

What If Silence Isn’t Indifference?

The message they typed… but never sent.

What if we’ve been getting silence wrong? When a friend says nothing about antisemitism, Israel, or the war, it’s easy to assume they don’t care. Silence feels like absence. It feels like distance. It feels like indifference. But what...

Aug 24, 2026, 5:31 AM

Don’t Let Yourself Be Treated Like a Second Class Citizen

A black girl converting to Judaism says some Jews in the community call her "schvartza". I said that's not ok. I told her you shouldn't tolerate that.She said it doesn't bother me. I think it does bother her. She...

Steve Glickstein

Aug 12, 2026, 4:54 AM

Disarm Antisemitism in 20 Seconds

Disarming prejudice: One cup of coffee at a time.

The next time you hear antisemitism over coffee, resist the urge to give a history lecture. Most of us instinctively reach for facts—citing dates, stats, or global headlines. But the moment you start lecturing, the other person’s eyes glaze over....

Andrew Esensten

Jul 31, 2026, 6:03 PM

Meet the African Hebrew Israelite artist who ‘paints’ with markers

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When Yihoyakeen Ben Israel was in first grade, he watched as another student copied a camera out of a textbook by hand. He was transfixed. “It was the most fascinating thing I had ever seen,” he recalled in a recent...

Steve Glickstein

Jul 30, 2026, 12:30 PM

Debates Don’t Defeat Antisemitism—Relationships Do

Image created by Steve Glickstein using Gemini.

Defeating modern hate requires understanding what we are actually fighting. Activist Shai Davidai recently offered a vital diagnosis: antisemitism isn't just prejudice—it’s a shape-shifting ideology. Today, it manifests as "American Intellectual Antisemitism," giving its adherents a dangerous sense of...

Jul 5, 2026, 4:31 PM

Home is Never Finished

They bet on American democracy. They believed the United States could become something almost unprecedented in Jewish history: a Diaspora where Jews could live openly as Jews while helping build a society rooted in liberty, justice, and pluralism. Today, that...

Zahava Feldstein

Jun 27, 2026, 5:00 PM

What to the Ashkenazi Jew is the Fourth of July?

I found the name Feldstein only once in a book: at Auschwitz, compiled in the book of the dead.

I am a fourth-generation American, and my ancestors are lost to Jewish history. They authored no books for me to discover; their names are not transcribed among the intellectual Jews of any time. I know, because I keep looking....

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