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Jun 8, 2026, 7:03 PM

The White Auditorium: On Hyperrationality and Social Perception

Do you speak Arabic? On Husserl’s “Hyperrationality” in the Context of Antisemitic Experience and the Irrationality of Social Perception I am attending a conference on philosophy and antisemitism. It is being held at one of those presentable German universities where the...

Eugene J. Levin

May 19, 2026, 11:06 AM

Are the People Around Us Better Because We Were Here?

Growing up in the Soviet Union, I never needed a rabbi to tell me I was Jewish. The state took care of that. It was stamped in your passport, whispered by neighbors, broadcast in the way certain doors closed...

Grant Arthur Gochin

May 3, 2026, 9:21 PM

May 9 and Lithuania’s Memory War

Courtesy of Author

Fridman is now the poster child for the Jew victimized by Lithuania’s campaign to govern Jewish memory. Lithuania has turned a Jew’s May 9 remembrance into a criminal file. Artur Fridman did not create Lithuania’s crisis. He exposed it. A...

Jaclyn S. Clark

May 2, 2026, 12:34 AM

The Eras Tour Theory of Antisemitism

Every generation of antisemites insists they are not the last one. They have a new sound. A new look. A new vocabulary. Don’t be fooled — the songwriter has not changed. I have been to the Eras Tour twice. The first...

May 1, 2026, 8:52 AM

Soulmateland. Bashertland

My homeland—the place that was waiting for me. A view of Haifa Bay from the Baháʼí Gardens. Photo © Tanya Bassov, 2023. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Homeland Is Not Where You Were Born, and Not Where You Chose to Live — But Where You Belong We are taught a simple formula: homeland is where you were born. It sounds natural, almost unquestionable. Birthplace equals belonging. Geography...

Apr 22, 2026, 10:22 PM

When will Jewish Lives Matter?

Not in a way that diminishes anti-Black racism or any other struggle, and not as a comparison, but as a broad movement of anti-racist activists who have had enough of anti-Jewish hatred and are prepared to say, publicly and...

Jaclyn S. Clark

Apr 20, 2026, 7:32 AM

A Crash Course in the World’s Oldest Conspiracy Theory

I did not grow up thinking about antisemitism. I did not study it in school. It was not part of my professional life. For nearly a decade after law school, I was a management-side employment lawyer — I defended...

Eugene J. Levin

Apr 13, 2026, 7:03 AM

Lithuania’s Next Jewish Target

On a public Facebook thread, a Lithuanian citizen named Saulius Gudas wrote: “O will be for him, and so will A. Fridman—to the LT court. I don’t think it will be possible to hide it like Nachman Dušansky…” Gudas was...

Apr 7, 2026, 6:32 PM

One Heart, Two Wars; the Elderly in the Staircase

Elderly woman, surrounded by non perisable food items, for use during prolonged blackouts. As part of a winter survival kit by Action -PSJ. Pic courtsey of APSJ

Sunday, Haifa was hit. Residential buildings. Homes. The quiet, everyday spaces where life unfolds—suddenly shattered. And then came the details that are harder to hold. A family killed. Not because they didn’t seek safety—but because they couldn’t reach it in time. An...

Mar 30, 2026, 7:37 PM

From Wilderness to War

From Wilderness to War: A Passover Reflection on Presence, Dignity, and What We Carry Forward 2026 Passover Reflection (1) The Passover story does not end with the crossing of the sea. It continues in the wilderness — in uncertainty, in fear, and...

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