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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

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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....

Jun 24, 2026, 8:32 PM

We Both Thought the Other One Left

Yesterday, I spent an hour and a half on Chicago’s South Side with a Black community leader and his beautiful wife. I had met him years ago while lobbying in Springfield, and something about him stayed with me. Some people...

Jun 22, 2026, 5:22 PM

Save the Children

If your child and your neighbor’s child were drowning, who would you save? Easy, right? What comes next is not easy and not P.C. It is a comparison of two opposing cultures topped off with a very obvious, heartfelt value...

Jun 3, 2026, 10:31 AM

The Indisputable Zionism of the Black Panther Party–Why it Matters Now (part 2)

(Part 2: The early Black nationalists' love of Zionism, Malcolm X as a closeted Zionist, the Black Panther Party’s rebuke of the holy war against Israel, and the real point of this story) In part 1 (immediately below this...

May 27, 2026, 11:24 AM

The Indisputable Zionism of the Black Panther Party and Why it Matters Now

(Part I: The Jew boy fight, the JDL, Zionists, and the Black Power Party’s Zionist-inspired platform) I was introduced to the Black Panthers in the eighth grade by my friend Gene—I think that was his name. We were walking...

May 26, 2026, 6:51 PM

Jewish & Black: Acting Against Racism

Standing Up for My Children and Making a Difference Why Speaking Out Still Matters It has been many months since I last sat down to write for my Jewish & Black series. Not because the subject became less important. If anything, the...

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