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March 27, 2025

Covenantal Politics, Not Assimilation, Are the Antidote to Identity Obsessions

Lessons from a Jewish revolutionary and a Hebrew date.

Can American Jews simultaneously embrace the country that has proved so good to them, maintain a strong sense of Jewishness, and avoid the destructive tendencies of identity politics? Meir Soloveichik believes they can by emulating Jonas Phillips, who fought in the American Revolution and in 1787 petitioned the Constitutional Convention over a discriminatory law then in place in Pennsylvania, where he resided:

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March 27, 2025

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  3. Nobody Loves Iran’s Islamic Revolution

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  4. Covenantal Politics, Not Assimilation, Are the Antidote to Identity Obsessions

    Lessons from a Jewish revolutionary and a Hebrew date.

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