The Knesset is dissolving. Elections are coming in October. And I am standing in the Mahane Yehuda market with my kids, watching an old Kurdish vendor arrange tangerines next to a Haredi family...
Tag - antisemitism
How Foreign Adversaries Turned Your Righteous Anger Into a Weapon Against You
Every day, millions of people log onto social media absolutely certain they have identified the enemy. Not a political opponent, not someone who sees the world differently, but an irredeemable...
Eurovision 2026: Boy George to Roger Waters: Hold My Star of David
Apparently Boy George was huge before I was born. My mom had a poster of him, a t-shirt, saw him live, dressed like him, the whole thing. A certified stan, which is honestly hard to square with the...
The Billion-Dollar Bill for Campus Bigotry
If you take a look at the current state of the American campus, it’s clear the ivy is finally being stripped off the walls. Not by shame, moral clarity or righteous indignation but rather by a...
Is Israel Losing America? Thanks Bibi.
How Netanyahu’s survival instinct, his embrace of the hard right, and twenty years of partisan choices have destroyed the bipartisan consensus that kept Israel safe, empowered Antisemites on...
The Queen’s Gornisht
The Queen’s Gambit and Jewish Exclusion By Cevin Soling, President of Spectacle Films and Xenu Records, and Harvard Academic Picture a movie about a person from Albania enduring a hardscrabble life...
Jewish Twitter Users Boycott Platform for 48 Hours to Protest Antisemitism
A large and diverse coalition of twitter users have announced that they are boycotting Twitter for 48 hours as a result of the social media platform’s relative inactivity in the face of...
The Oldest Hatred, a practical analysis
Hatred of the Jews is the oldest and most pervasive form of prejudice which humanity knows. In this episode Rav Mike uses the comments of Haman to ask not only why we are hated, but also what we can...