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Zahava Feldstein

Jul 12, 2025, 12:45 PM

How I learned to stop apologizing for being a Jew

Somewhere in the ache between the stories I inherited and the ones I later claimed, I found my way back to Zionism

Jul 9, 2025, 9:56 AM

In Lieu of Flowers

Dear Dr. Perlmutter, Although we never met in person, I feel your presence deeply. In the days since your tragic passing, something remarkable happened. Our inbox lit up—not with news of the world or demands for attention, but with quiet notifications: A...

Annette Poizner

Jul 4, 2025, 6:37 PM

Rejecting Victimhood: What Jews and Chinese Can Teach the West

In an era increasingly shaped by polarized narratives and identity-based grievance, the Jewish and Chinese communities—each with long histories of resilience and renewal—have a unique opportunity, even a responsibility, to partner and promote a different kind of cultural message....

Jul 1, 2025, 5:21 PM

ZAKA Volunteer, 10.7 Gender Violence Expert May Help Canadian Jews with Antisemitism

ZAKA spokesperson, Yisrael Chasid (left), and ZAKA volunteer, Simcha Yaffa (right), with American and Canadian mental health professionals, trauma experts, and students on the AJMA Israel Trauma Mission.

“How do you do it?” we asked Israel Chasid, a volunteer with ZAKA who spent the last 18 months going into the areas decimated by Hamas to salvage what was left of the bodies and prepare them for Jewish...

Jul 1, 2025, 12:02 AM

New York City: What went wrong?

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York Democratic Primary was not about anti-Semitism but about generational change. That should give us even more cause for concern. Mamdani campaigned on a platform of making New York more affordable. His ideas such...

Jun 30, 2025, 10:05 PM

UCT to Israelis: Renounce Your Identity or Stay Away

Photo: @gingerwithagopro

As the IAMHIST 2025 Conference begins today at the University of Cape Town (UCT), what should have been a networking of global academics has instead become a flashpoint of contradiction. The South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) has strongly criticised...

Hillary Anger Elfenbein

Jun 20, 2025, 7:26 AM

Mothers Against College Antisemitism is a monster that universities created

Since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th being both a faculty member and mother of a Jewish college student has placed me in the intersection of two very different worlds. This sliver of space is disquieting, in a field...

Adam Louis-Klein

Jun 14, 2025, 3:27 PM

The central strategy of modern antizionism is the Flood. They flood Israel’s borders with militants and civilians prepared to commit atrocities against Israeli civilians. They flood the internet with Palestinian flags, antisemitic "laugh reacts," false claims, slogans, fabricated casualty numbers,...

Adam Louis-Klein

Jun 13, 2025, 5:48 PM

The Moment of Reckoning That Never Came

Since October 7th, I’ve remained open—almost uncomfortably so—to the possibility that I was wrong. That what I understood as Jewish self-defense was in fact something more sinister. That Zionism, far from an indigenous liberation movement, might be, as critics...

Toni Airaksinen

Jun 12, 2025, 6:43 PM

Where Are All The Pro-Israel Professors?

The author, Toni Airaksinen (right) at a launch party for a politically unorthodox magazine while she was a student at Barnard College.

In this environment, it’s almost impossible to find anyone — students or professors — who admit they hold conservative or unorthodox views on any topic. To be public about those views could be equivalent to committing social or career suicide,...

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