How Israel Can Respond to the Crisis in Ukraine and the Rise of China
Challenges to the U.S. leave the Jewish state in a bind.
February 11, 2022
American Jews Should Be Worried about Rising Anti-Semitism—but Shouldn’t Lose Faith in the American Exception
The worst episodes of U.S. anti-Semitism have been followed by philo-Semitic backlash.
According to recent polls, Jews in the U.S. are becoming increasingly alarmed about the numerous hostile currents in public life—and with good reason. Nevertheless, writes Gil Troy, America, although it is far from immune to anti-Semitism, has never succumbed to it the way European and Middle Eastern countries have at various points in their history. He takes as an example one of the lowest moments in American Jewish history: General U.S. Grant’s order, in the midst of the Civil War, to expel the Jews from Tennessee—an order swiftly overridden by President Lincoln:
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How the Deaths of Three Terrorists Help Mahmoud Abbas
The Palestinian Authority president can incite his people against Israel and ignore threats to his legitimacy.
American Jews Should Be Worried about Rising Anti-Semitism—but Shouldn’t Lose Faith in the American Exception
The worst episodes of U.S. anti-Semitism have been followed by philo-Semitic backlash.
Teaching Judaism to Non-Jewish Clergy
The Jethro Project.
The Jewish Roots of the Universal Language
Esperanto’s greatest enthusiasts were Jews, and its greatest enemies anti-Semites.