Opinion | Yehuda Kurtzer On The New Jewish Divide
Yehuda Kurtzer, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute reflects on how the Jewish community may vote this presidential campaign season.
Yehuda Kurtzer, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute reflects on how the Jewish community may vote this presidential campaign season.
The “essentialist” antisemitism argument is oddly comforting—It’s not us, it’s them!—but also dangerous.
Two Jewish voters explain their pick for president—and the impact of issues like Trump’s convictions and Biden’s handling of the war in Gaza.
Bert and I met on June 9, 1963, fell madly in love, talked incessantly, got engaged in October and married two months later, astonished by our commonalities and delighted by our differences.
It’s easy to say a Jewish state is not needed from the safety of the United States.
Stephen Miller, Trump’s speechwriter and the architect of the deportation proposal, promised the biggest forced movement of people in American history.
“Trump’s base wants Trump because he’s their messianic hero, but also because he enables a small bloc of religious zealots to use the government to impose their biblical worldview on everyone else.”
This Passover, before or after reading the Haggadah, many Israeli Jews are likely to mention a casual but common Hebrew phrase: “We got past Pharaoh, we will get past this too.”
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We have a tremendous humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, and only UNRWA has the capacity and the wherewithal to implement an effective response, not just today but probably for a year or more.
With the death of Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Kara-Murza—the crusading and imprisoned Russian journalist—is now the public face of dissent and most prominent democratic opponent of Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship.
What will happen on the “day after” the war in Gaza ends is one of the things (there are a few) over which the U.S. administration and the Israeli government are having a dispute.