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the discourse
Dec. 23, 2023
Masha Gessen on Israel, Gaza, and Holocaust Analogies A conversation with the Russian American journalist about the uses and abuses of Holocaust memory.
By Eric Levitz
the discourse
Dec. 11, 2023
How Bad Is Antisemitism in America, Really? It’s a genuine social problem. But the U.S. is nevertheless an exceptionally safe country for Jews.
By Eric Levitz
foreign interests
Nov. 28, 2023
In Bibi’s Israel, Musk’s Brand of Antisemitism Is Kosher How a plutocrat can post antisemitic tweets one day and shake hands with the Israeli prime minister the next.
By Eric Levitz
Why Is This Geopolitical Fight Different From All Other Fights? The outsize place that Israel-Palestine occupies in American discourse isn’t arbitrary, nor a reflection of anti-Semitism.
By Eric Levitz
Biden Will Run a Very Un-Waspy Government Women, Blacks, Latinos, Catholics, and Jews: This ain’t your grandfather’s Cabinet.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Jan. 30, 2020
Poll: Jewish Voters Are Indifferent to Jewish Presidential Candidates According to a new survey, Sanders and Bloomberg are running fourth and fifth among Jewish Democratic voters.
By Ed Kilgore
When Trump Talks About Jews, He’s Really Talking to Evangelical Christians Trump’s appeals to Jews are mostly dog whistles to his Evangelical base, which views Jews and Israel as central to the Second Coming.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Aug. 21, 2019
Trump Says Jews Should Love Him Because He’s Almost Literally Jesus Trump can’t understand why stiff-necked Jews forsake his brand of blood-and-soil authoritarian demagoguery.
By Jonathan Chait
donald trump
Mar. 8, 2019
Trump’s Claim That Democrats Are an ‘Anti-Jewish Party’ Is Absurd His reaction to the Ilhan Omar controversy ignores a century of strongly pro-Democratic Jewish sentiment, which continues today.
By Ed Kilgore
Ilhan Omar Is a Convenient Republican Target The party is hoping to distract attention from their own and their president’s extremism.
By Ed Kilgore
4 Reasons Republicans Are Keeping the Heat on Ilhan Omar Omar is a convenient target for Republicans hoping to distract attention from their own and their president’s extremism.
By Ed Kilgore
american history
Aug. 21, 2018
The Riotous Pre-History of American Jews Eight of the most critical and contentious turning points, from Steven Weisman’s The Chosen Wars.
By Abraham Riesman
Why BlacKkKlansman Is Required Viewing for Jews There’s a lot packed into Adam Driver’s character’s soul-searching.
By Abraham Riesman
Israeli Authorities Detain and Question American Jewish Activist Simone Zimmerman is the co-founder of Israel-criticizing group IfNotNow.
By Abraham Riesman
Donald Trump Gives Non-Kosher Speech to GOP Jews Donald Trump and a bunch of Republican Jews walked into a convention center, and the punch lines were as offensive as you’d expect.
By Eric Levitz
who run the world (girls)
Oct. 21, 2014
By Katie Zavadski
Jewish Reporter Offers Defense of Mel Gibson “He wasn’t the bad person I thought he was back when I first wrote about him.”
By Jesse David Fox
the national interest
Sept. 18, 2013
By Jonathan Chait
religious guilt
Sept. 5, 2013
By Kat Stoeffel
awful things
Sept. 5, 2013
By Joe Coscarelli
the national interest
May 22, 2013
By Jonathan Chait
Oklahoma Lawmaker Uses the Term ‘Jew Me Down’ “I apologize to the Jews,” he said, unapologetically.
By Dan Amira
early and awesome
Aug. 8, 2012
Mitt Romney Is Elvis (to Certain Orthodox Jews) A group of Orthodox Jews at a wedding party went nuts for Mitt Romney today.
By Dan Amira
very old nazis
July 18, 2012
Laszlo Csatary Did Nazi This Coming The 97-year-old former Hungarian Nazi was arrested in Budapest today.
By Dan Amira
The One About Old Jews on Broadway “OLD MAN: Doctor, I can’t pee.
DOCTOR: Tell me, Mr. Moskowitz, how old are you?
OLD MAN: I’m 94.
DOCTOR: You’ve peed enough.
Believe me: […]
By Jesse David Fox
Detroit Tiger Delmon Young on Restricted List The Thursday night incident has the potential to void his $6.7 million contract.
By Caroline Bankoff
Delmon Young Gets Drunk, Yells About Jews We know this because of what happened in Midtown last night.
By Dan Amira
Judd Apatow and Lena Dunham Get to the Bottom of Judaism and Boobs Amid the hubbub about HBO’s Girls, which premieres April 15, we still all have some important lingering questions. Like: Is Lena Dunham Jewish? […]
By Hallie Cantor
other states’ embarrassments
Mar. 13, 2012
New Hampshire Town to Vote on ‘Jew Pond’ Some insist that the name Jew Pond isn’t anti-Jew.
By Dan Amira
hate crimes
Jan. 16, 2012
Brooklyn Vandals Won’t Quit With the Anti-Semitism More swastika graffiti turned up over the weekend.
By Joe Coscarelli
Bad News for Old Nazis Nazi hunters are making a new push to prosecute Nazi war criminals before they die.
By Dan Amira
Obama Seeks to Shore Up the Jewish Vote The president said that no ally is more important than the state of Israel.
By Brett Smiley
Police Investigating Another Anti-Semitic Crime in Brooklyn Swastikas were etched onto metal inside an elevator in a Williamsburg building.
By Brett Smiley
‘Christmas Quality, Hanukkah Pricing’ Vodka Ad The Anti-Defamation League has demanded that the billboard be removed.
By Brett Smiley
See a Matzo Prank Passover has come quite early for one merry prankster.
By Eliot Glazer
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