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Jonathan Rosenoer

Jul 9, 2025, 8:59 PM

Should We Bring Joy to Progressive Jewish Anti-Zionists?

What story can we tell to inspire reconnection with the Jewish people and awaken the sleeping love for G‑d in the heart of every Jew? There's a land that I've heard of once in a lullaby – Isidore Hochberg, Somewhere Over...

Jul 7, 2025, 10:24 PM

Vienna 1897, New York 2025?

A city that was a center of culture, finance, and political power. with a large and thriving Jewish community elected an antisemitic mayor. The impact on two residents of that city would change the Jewish world forever. What are...

May 29, 2025, 4:24 PM

Book review – American Intifada: Israel, the Gaza War, and the New Antisemitism

Cognitive dissonance is a psychological state of discomfort experienced when an individual's beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors contradict each other. For example, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol understood Gamal Abdel Nasser was completely serious when he said he was going to...

Klara Vlahcevic Lisinski

May 26, 2025, 7:05 AM

Zionism and Palestine: Identity and Dispossession

Eight months ago, I was denied entry to a Brussels restaurant because of a Star of David pendant. The owner, while blocking the door, claimed my presence would disturb the “brown people” there, not because I was Jewish or...

Gregory Lyakhov

May 25, 2025, 6:06 AM

The Washington D.C. Shooting Was Preventable

Speakers Rally during Candlelight Vigil to Honor U. S. Airman Aaron Bushnell's Self Sacrifice for Peace at the Israeli Embassy at 3514 International Drive, NW, Washington DC on Monday evening, 26 February 2024 by Elvert Barnes Photography: PUBLIC DOMAIN

On May 21, Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26, and Yaron Lischinsky, 30, were murdered outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Both were young Israeli diplomats. Their killer, Elias Rodriguez, fired over twenty rounds. Video footage shows Milgrim trying...

May 24, 2025, 1:30 AM

Open Season? Think Again

Careful What You Wish For. We've Just About Had It You! By Brutally Honest Abe Last night, in the capital of the United States, two young innocent Jews—a man and a woman on the eve of getting engaged—were senselessly and brutally...

Joshua Dubin-Schlesinger

May 20, 2025, 6:57 PM

On the Issue of Extremism

It has come to my attention that some Jewish groups have initiated a futile crusade against their fellow Jews. That rather than embrace the sole cause of the continuity of our people they have chosen to instead embrace ego...

May 20, 2025, 3:42 PM

How Far Can American Jews Balance Dual Loyalty?

For most American Jews, loving Israel and being loyal Americans isn’t a contradiction, but part of who they are. A study posted in 2024 by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found that “56% of all respondents … agreed with the...

May 14, 2025, 4:42 PM

Is your parachute in good working order?

Twenty-one years ago, Edan Alexander’s parents made a decision that likely saved their son’s life. When he was 2 months old, they moved to the US having no idea at that moment that Edan’s American passport would one day...

Audrey N. Glickman

May 12, 2025, 6:56 AM

2,000 Years Ago, Redux

2,000 Years Ago, Redux, artwork by Audrey N. Glickman. Used with permission.

Fellow Jews, we seem to be repeating the history of 2,000 years ago. The musical Jesus Christ Superstar takes place back then, a story about a bunch of Jews. I’ve produced the show, and I find it very Jewish, especially...

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