Purim 2024: Discussions & Analyses of Antisemitism Today
We’ve all been troubled by the upsurge of antisemitism in recent months. We have curated a series of essays that open discussions and analyses of antisemitism today by Rabbi Rebecca Lillian, Rabbi Elisheva Salamo, Rabbi Josh Snyder and Rabbi David Teutsch.
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Curation of Essays on Antisemitism
The Houthis preach a particular, religiously informed hatred of Jews, a specific kind of antisemitism that has its foundation in an extremist strand of modern Islamic teaching.
- April 1, 2024
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Some of us have felt deeply shaken by rhetoric and activism we’ve seen from critics of Israel’s assault on Gaza. Where does legitimate criticism end and antisemitism begin?
- April 1, 2024
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An escalating fear of antisemitism from both left and right is actually much worse in the United States than in either Sweden or Denmark.
- March 17, 2024
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Legitimate critiques of Israel tend to veer towards illegitimate generalizations about Israel, Zionists or Jews that rely on age-old antisemitic ideas.
- March 17, 2024
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Understanding that the mob was bent on death, most of the Jews decided that it was preferable to take their own lives.
- March 17, 2024
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The IHRA position regards any opposition to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians or advocacy of a democratic one-state solution, or many other substantive criticisms, into being understood as antisemitism.
- February 21, 2024
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Rabbinic literature explains that it is not for Jews to fight Amalek because God will exercise vengeance in the “Age to Come.”
- February 6, 2023
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Living fully and beautifully, and in a deeply interconnected fashion, is the richest possible repudiation of those who hate us.
- November 19, 2021
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Without a deeper understanding of antisemitism and its relationship to white supremacy, our movements for justice can easily be undermined and weakened.
- March 31, 2021
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Jews and non-Jews have internalized varying degrees of antisemitism, including the insidious idea that Jews should "disappear." This trope of erasure opens up a new frame through which to consider the connections between antisemitism and anti-Zionism.
- March 12, 2021
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Is the United States exceptional in the lack of intensity and violence of American antisemitism? Professor Friedman reviews the evidence and arguments on both sides of the debate.
- March 12, 2021
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Antisemitism holds a central and essential place in the world view of contemporary American white nationalists. By contrast, antisemitism that surfaces on the left is not essential, and can and should be addressed.
- March 12, 2021
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A look at some of the causes of tension and misunderstanding between Jews and Blacks in the United States.
- March 12, 2021
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Helpful suggestions about criteria for identifying antisemitism, strategies for addressing it, and understanding how antisemitism and racism can trigger one another.
- October 29, 2018
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