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The New Face of Christian Zionism | In These Times
Over at In These Times, my colleague Fred Clarkson and I take an in-depth look at the End Times warriors at the cutting edge of Christian Zionism– the New Apostolic Reformation, the most important…
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Remarks at Law and Antisemitism Conference | UCLA School of Law
The campus antisemitism moral panic which has gripped U.S. political discourse since October 7 serves to distract not only from Israel’s war in Gaza, but from the steady rise of antisemitism fueling, and fueled…
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Conservatives claim to be fighting antisemitism. Don’t believe them | The Hill
My latest at The Hill on Project Esther, Christian nationalism and the weaponization of antisemitism. ““Shalom, Mahmoud,” the Trump White House declared last week on social media, celebrating the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian…
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Why did Trump just tell reporters that Chuck Schumer ‘is not Jewish anymore’? | Religion Dispatches
“I’ve always been fascinated by Trump’s attempts to disparage Chuck Schumer by calling him a Palestinian. The term of course, shouldn’t be a slur—Palestinians are a people like any other. In the mouth of…
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Reclaiming Jewishness as Alterity: A Review of the New Translation of “Our Comrade, Avreml Broide” | Jewschool
“In Your Comrade, Avreml Broide: A Worker’s Life Story (Wayne State University Press, November 2024), translator Annie Sommer Kaufman offers a fresh and vital glimpse into the vibrant lifeworld of early-20th-century American Jewish radicalism– with a…
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Parshat Yitro 2/15/25
Yitro, Moses and the elders, James Tissot (a dvar given at my local havurah on Shabbos morning) So the big news in this week’s parsha is that the Israelites receive the Ten Commandments! God…
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Trump’s EO to ‘Combat Antisemitism’ Wields Jewish Safety as a Weapon to Crush Palestine Solidarity | Religion Dispatches
“Last week, Trump released an executive order pledging to combat antisemitism by ordering a draconian crackdown on Palestine solidarity protests. That same day, reporters leaked a memo from an agency within Pete Hegseth’s Department of…
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Trump’s Fervent Christian Zionists Poised to Lead the Military — And US-Israel Relations | Religion Dispatches
“With Trump’s second presidency, Christian Zionism may be returning to the White House stronger than ever before. His recent nomination of Mike Huckabee as US ambassador to Israel and Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense mean…
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Heritage Foundation’s Christian Nationalist ‘Project Esther’ Won’t Combat Antisemitism — But it Will Weaponize Jews | Religion Dispatches
“On the anniversary of October 7, the Heritage Foundation released Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. The 33-page document calls on the federal government to use counterterrorism, immigration, surveillance, intelligence gathering and…
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