Author: Ben Lorber

• The Right Wants to Keep Jewish and Black Non-Jewish Communities Divided. We Can’t Let That Happen.

  Written at Political Research Associates, with Leo Ferguson and Dove Kent “Jews and allies have drawn thousands to demonstrations following separate antisemitic attacks by members of Black communities against orthodox…

• The GOP has mainstreamed white nationalist anti-Semitism

  My latest at +972mag, on the mainstreaming of antisemitism across the U.S. Right, one year after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. “One year ago last Sunday, a white nationalist committed the…

• A Year After the Tree of Life Shooting, Antisemitism and Anti-Immigrant Racism Thrive

  My latest at Yes! Magazine, co-written with Tina Vasquez, looking at the intersections between antisemitism and anti-immigrant racism on the Right. “One year ago this Sunday, a White nationalist stepped…

• Taking Aim at Multiracial Democracy: Antisemitism, White Nationalism, and Anti-Immigrant Racism in the Era of Trump

  My report on antisemitism and white nationalism in America, with Political Research Associates. “The last thing White nationalist Robert Bowers posted to social media before his deadly attack on the…

• ‘May Memories Rise’: On the Meaning of ‘Yaaleh Ve-Yavo’

  A year ago I had occasion to write on Torah themes. I recently got my drash published on the site Lehrhaus- ‘May Memories Rise’: On the Meaning of ‘Yaaleh Ve-Yavo’.…

• Where Did The Past Go?

  Check out my feature article for the summer 2019 issue of Jewish Currents, ‘Where Did The Past Go?’, on current progressive Jewish debates about the nature of antisemitism, and the…

• Cultivating Jewish “Ecotheology”

  My new review of Rabbi David Seidenberg’s book “Kabbalah and Ecology” is up at Protocols magazine! Nearly all modern Jewish thinkers, including Orthodox, adopt a Westernized perspective that elevates humanity…

• The Resurgence of Right-wing Antisemitic Conspiracism Endangers all Justice Movements

  Days after the synagogue shooting outside of San Diego, I wrote in Religion Dispatches about the antisemitic ideology that helped motivate the shooter. Conspiracy theories about George Soros, ‘globalists’ and…

• Four reasons why I love Purim- on vulnerability and resilience, diasporism, and fighting white supremacy

  I really love Purim. In this post, I’ll explain four reasons why. Purim tells us that holiness can be found in our world, not only in the lofty striving of…