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Sep 25, 2026, 5:24 PM

Black Lives Matter and the Test of Black-Jewish Solidarity

One of the easiest ways to misunderstand Black-Jewish relations is to compare the Civil Rights Movement at its most idealized with Black Lives Matter at its most controversial. The comparison usually runs like this: in the 1960s, Jews stood...

Sep 25, 2026, 8:03 AM

The Golem of 30th Avenue, Part 1

The Golem of 30th Ave. (ChatGPT)

This is the first half of a short story from my collection of stories featuring the Jews of Astoria, NY. Comment if you'd like to see more content like this, or if you know of anyone who may be...

Sep 24, 2026, 7:10 PM

Book Review – New Year, Lots of New Books on the Parsha

Daf Yomi, like the weekly Torah reading, creates a shared Jewish intellectual calendar. On any given Shabbat, an Orthodox Jew anywhere in the world is likely to be hearing the same Torah portion as Jews in Jerusalem, London, Teaneck,...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Sep 23, 2026, 9:36 PM

Why Historians Care About Evidence, Not Vibes

In August 1921, The Times of London printed passages from a book by Maurice Joly next to passages from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Joly had published Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu in Brussels in 1864....

Nestor Daniel Scherman

Sep 23, 2026, 7:16 PM

Did Europe Really Learn to Live in Peace, or Did America Keep the Peace?

Did Europe Learn to Live in Peace? There is something extraordinary about Europe that we hardly notice anymore. For more than eighty years, France and Germany have not fought each other. Neither have Germany and Poland, France and Britain, or...

Sheldon Kirshner

Sep 23, 2026, 6:54 PM

American Jews And Slavery

A profusion of books and monographs has been published on a topic fraught with passion and controversy – American Jews and slavery in the United States. Richard Kreitner is the latest author to enter this field. Fear No Pharaoh:...

Sep 22, 2026, 5:12 AM

Hands Off My Palestine

The Palestine Reclamation Project: Palestine Is Israel. Hands. Off. My. Palestine. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Reclaiming the Name That Exists Only Because Israel Does What is Palestine? The question seems straightforward. It isn’t. Ask different people, and you will get radically different answers. There is no Palestine. Palestine is Jordan. Palestine is Gaza and Judea and Samaria. Palestine is the State...

Sep 22, 2026, 3:21 AM

When History Is Rewritten, Israel Pays the Price

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (AI)

There are moments when history is debated. And then there are moments when history itself appears to be rewritten. As someone who has spent much of my life connected to Israel, who has lived in the Middle East and studied...

Stephen M. Flatow

Sep 22, 2026, 3:04 AM

Remember the Alamo? Maybe Not Anymore

For a child of the 1950s, Davy Crockett, coonskin caps and the Alamo were part of growing up. Then came the day I realized my grandchildren might not know what any of it meant. An email arrived in my inbox...

Sep 22, 2026, 2:35 AM

Diaspora Jews: Be strong and of good courage

Somewhere in the Diaspora, there’s a Jew who has decided, without ever saying it out loud, that the fight against antizionism belongs to somebody else. We soothe ourselves with these stories. That antizionism is “just about Israel,” and after all,...

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