It Will Take More Than Tough Talk to Roll Back Iran’s March to Dominance
Stopping the mullahs involves taking risks.
December 14, 2017
It’s Time for Jews to Give Up on “Social Justice”
For today’s progressives, Jewish particularism is acceptable only when it involves vehement critiques of Israel.
Many American Jews, especially those involved in the Reform movement, see “social justice” as a key component of what it means to be Jewish. Many look with nostalgia to the 1960s, when a number of Jews became involved in the civil-rights movement. But now, argues Josh Block, the progressive left, contaminated by the worst excesses of postmodernist and intersectionality-soaked academic theory, has rejected the values that animated the activists of yesteryear. Worse, despite its obsession with identity politics, the new progressivism has no room for Jewish particularism:
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The Message behind American Recognition of Israeli Sovereignty over Jerusalem
Israel is here to stay.
It’s Time for Jews to Give Up on “Social Justice”
For today’s progressives, Jewish particularism is acceptable only when it involves vehement critiques of Israel.
Lessons in Friendship and Tolerance from Moses Mendelssohn
Our secular culture tells believers that they are too sensible to remain people of faith.
A Mother and Daughter Discover a Maccabean-Era Oil Lamp
With help from a porcupine.