This political moment requires acting in solidarity — having other people’s backs and enabling people to have ours. As Jews, we need practice in both.
Jewish fear is real. So is Jewish solidarity — for Jews by others, by Jews for others. And so is love. We are not alone.
The vulnerability I feel as an Ashkenazi Jew to anti-semitism resembles that felt by people of color when they encounter the police.
28 Christian clergy called on Montanans to post menorahs in their windows in solidarity with Jewish communty of Whitefish and against a neo-Nazi march.
If you’re worried about hail victory salutes in DC and swastikas in parks and on subways (as we should be), start asking not whom you should disallow, but whom you should invite into your life.
In this charged context, any sign of resistance on the part of Indian protectors and their allies is read as dangerous insurgency. That is how the metaphysics of Indian hating works.
If you’ve heard of Rabbi Brant Rosen, chances are that you know about his vocal and principled stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Rosen has been
I’ve seen footage of the confrontations aboard the flotilla that suggest that the passengers on the ships were ready for an armed attack. @IsraelMFA (on