The Danger of Letting Apolitical Jewish Institutions Become Politicized

For the past several weeks, the Tikvah Fund—the Jewish non-profit educational institution that publishes Mosaic—had been planning to hold its annual conference at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan. When the conference’s organizers informed the venue that the keynote speaker would be Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, the museum then decided that the conference could no longer be he held on its premises because DeSantis does not “align with the museum’s values and its message of inclusivity.” Jonathan Tobin examines the implications of a mainstream Jewish organization’s decision to ban a major American political figure: