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Andy Blumenthal

Aug 30, 2026, 7:04 AM

There Is No “Other Jew”

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“Of course antisemitism is getting worse,” a Jewish friend told me recently. “But it’s not really happening to us.” I’ve heard variations of that sentence constantly since October 7. Sometimes it’s masked: “Our neighborhood is different.” “My office is fine.”...

Aug 20, 2026, 8:42 PM

The Intersection of Jewish Peoplehood & Innovation Nation

The Infrastructure to Connect the Jewish Future Am Yisrael, the Global Jewish People, stand at a historical intersection. The challenges we face on a communal, societal, and national level are familiar yet different. Unlike the challenges we have faced throughout...

Yana Tartakovskiy

Jul 22, 2026, 8:25 PM

My Family Fled Soviet Antisemitism. Then I Faced It in College.

Growing up in a small corner of Brooklyn, home to a community of ex-Soviet Jews, history wasn't something confined to my textbooks; it was revealed through the narratives of resilience and survival that my family shared with me. My...

Jul 21, 2026, 12:55 PM

Where Europe Places Its Jews

A few weeks ago, I walked into a second-hand bookstore and bought a novel by Antonio Tabucchi, the Italian writer whose devotion to Fernando Pessoa and Lisbon had recently drawn me into his work. Only later did I open...

Jun 12, 2026, 6:46 PM

Protection Is Not Inclusion

The University of Exeter's Streatham Campus. (Samuel Weisz)

Lately I have been thinking about the 2026 Super Bowl ad that raised awareness about antisemitism in schools and how much I disagree with it. While I was happy to see that the topic has risen to this level...

Ezra Landman-Feigelson

May 14, 2026, 11:02 AM

Why I Am Not Attending My College Graduation

My peers in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (DURP at UIUC) will be attending our graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 16, 2026, and I will not be joining them. It isn’t...

May 13, 2026, 9:27 PM

An anti-Israel camp at a Holocaust deportation site is a disgrace

The Square of the Jewish Deportees in Hamburg

Right across from the Dammtor train station in the center of Hamburg in Germany, the Moorweide park is currently occupied by an anti-Israel camp calling itself "Bridges of Resistance". Inside this camp, rhetoric is used that questions Israel's right...

May 7, 2026, 8:44 PM

Remembering You’re Not Alone

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Last Friday, Hillel Ontario partnered with Beth Tzedec Congregation in Toronto to host Shabbat dinner for over 120 Jewish and Iranian students. The following is a reflection of my comments at the event. Many of us are well aware of...

May 7, 2026, 4:21 AM

We’re Not Backing Down. We’re Doubling Down.

There is a feeling settling over many Jewish communities in Canada right now – difficult to describe, but impossible to ignore. It is the feeling that something foundational has shifted. You see it in the headlines: violent attacks targeting synagogues and...

Apr 22, 2026, 7:01 PM

From One College Campus — Todah Rabah Shlichim

Third Floor Window, Burack Hillel at 439 College St May 21, 2021 5:25 PM. (courtesy)

Last night at our UVM Hillel’s Yom HaZikaron dinner I deeply felt the impact of the Jewish Agency for Israel shlichim on our campus and around the world. That day our Israel Fellow spent hours in the kitchen cooking the...

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