Understanding the Background of the White House Ruling on Anti-Semitism and the Civil Rights Act
The lack of a coherent legal conception of Jewish identity rendered the Department of Education unable to cope with anti-Semitic incidents on campus.
December 13, 2019
From Jersey City, a Bloody Lesson on the Real, and the Imagined, Dangers Facing American Jews
Don’t expect left-wing politicians to take action against the former.
Outrage spread rapidly via Twitter earlier this week based on the spurious claim that President Trump intended to label Jews “a separate nationality”—a move denounced as encouraging anti-Semitism or as itself anti-Semitic. Although correct information about the executive order that sparked the controversy is now widely available, one need not look far to find essays and editorials condemning it in heated terms. Liel Leibovitz notes that just as “our bien pensants were whipping everyone into a wild frenzy” over this imagined act of anti-Semitism, an armed couple attacked a kosher grocery store in a ḥasidic enclave in Jersey City, killing two Jews, one Gentile, and a police officer. The couple had brought with them multiple pipe bombs, and could easily have achieved far bloodier results. Leibovitz writes:
December 13, 2019
Israel’s Third Elections Might Not Be Such a Disaster, After All
Enabling the electorate to work through the hugely sensitive decision of who should lead the country.
From Jersey City, a Bloody Lesson on the Real, and the Imagined, Dangers Facing American Jews
Don’t expect left-wing politicians to take action against the former.
Finland’s Exceptional Jewish Community
Shaping history rather than being shaped by it.
What the Masada Scrolls Reveal about Second Temple Judaism
The Dead Sea sect might not have been so unusual as once thought.