Observation ·
The Blood Libel Is Very Old, but the Term Is Surprisingly New
By PhilologosCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Anti-Semitism
Latest Mosaic Content for Anti-Semitism
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Israeli Territorial Concessions Worsen Anti-Semitism in the West
By Evelyn GordonI was delighted to read Rafi DeMogge’s essay arguing that territorial withdrawals harm rather than help Israel’s international image, since I have been making this argument for over fifteen years, mos...
Observation ·
Why the Accusation of Settler Colonialism Is So Hollow
By PhilologosCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
“Get the Jew”: The Crown Heights Riot Revisited
By Michael Pack, Elliot Kaufman, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
How the Next President Can Help Restore Jewish Civil Rights on Campus
By The EditorsWhen anti-Israel encampments emerged on American college campuses last spring, Jewish students and faculty were discriminated against, harassed, and assaulted. Some schools admirably addressed this be...
Observation ·
Is Baruch Spinoza the Founder of Modern Anti-Semitism?
By Henry MechoulanCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Podcast: Terry Glavin on Rising Anti-Semitism in Canada
By Tikvah Podcast at MosaicCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Podcast: Bella Brannon and Benjie Katz on Anti-Semitic Employment Discrimination at UCLA
By Tikvah Podcast at MosaicCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Monthly Essay ·
How the Incoming Administration Can Restore Jewish Civil Rights
By Tal FortgangThe government can break the wave of anti-Semitism subsuming American college campuses. But it will take political will.
Observation ·
Marilynne Robinson Promises Her Reading of Genesis Is Faithful to the Text. Is It?
By Jon D. LevensonCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
Watch Andrew Koss and David N. Myers Discuss Whether Jewish Studies Has Turned against the Jews
By Andrew Koss, Jonathan SilverAs university campuses witnessed an eruption of anti-Semitism this year, scholars of Jewish studies were for the most part strangely silent. In his May 2024 feature essay , Mosaic senior editor And...
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Watch Gary Saul Morson and Jacob Howland Discuss the Dostoevsky Problem
By Gary Saul Morson, Jacob Howland, Jonathan SilverIn this month’s feature Mosaic essay , the literary scholar Gary Saul Morson argues that the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky presents a conundrum: On the one hand, he was the great writer of...
Response ·
The Jews Who Guard Dostoevsky
By Gary Saul MorsonOne reason I love writing for Mosaic is the quality of responses, and both Adam Kirsch’s and Marat Grinberg’s are especially interesting. They invite real dialogue. Kirsch, in fact, mentions the Ru...
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The Special Sway Dostoevsky Held over Soviet Jewish Minds
By Marat GrinbergAndrei Zorin, a well-known scholar of Russian literature at Oxford and a biographer of Tolstoy, stated in a recent interview that if we want to understand today’s manifestations of Russian imperial th...
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Anti-Semitism Appeals to Intellectuals Because It Feels Like an Idea
By Adam KirschGary Saul Morson’s characteristically learned and insightful essay on Dostoevsky raises the question of how a writer with such a profound understanding of good and evil could fall prey to such a rudim...
Observation ·
Podcast: Alexandra Orbuch, Gabriel Diamond, and Zach Kessel on the Situation for Jews on American Campuses
By Tikvah Podcast at MosaicCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Monthly Essay ·
Why Dostoevsky Loved Humanity and Hated the Jews
By Gary Saul MorsonThe case of the literary master helps explain why people who devote themselves to compassion for all so often make an exception for Jews.
Response ·
“Today the Jews. Tomorrow You.”
By Andrew DoranWhy should Catholics, and Catholic institutions, stand against anti-Semitism? Rooting out the cancer of Jew hatred is, for us an American imperative and at the same time a Christian obligation. The Ph...
Observation ·
The Biden Administration’s Anti-Semitism Blindspot
By Ruth R. WisseCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Podcast: Tevi Troy on the Biden Administration’s Plan to Fight Anti-Semitism
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Tevi TroyCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
What American Conservatives Can Do about Right-Wing Anti-Semitism
By Tamara BerensI would like to thank Tara Isabella Burton and Tim Carney for their insightful responses to my essay, and Samuel Goldman, Douglas Murray, and Jonathan Silver for taking the time to discuss it with...
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Unchurched Christians and Anti-Semitic Ones
By Timothy P. CarneyThe last time I hung out with Richard Spencer, back when he presented himself as a movement conservative, back before we knew he was a white supremacist, he and I got in a fight about the Catholic Chu...
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Anti-Modern Anti-Semitism
By Tara Isabella BurtonBack in 2017, when Donald Trump was newly inaugurated to the American presidency, and what was then known as the alt-right was riding its brief Internet-fueled period of chaotic cultural ascendancy, s...
Monthly Essay ·
From Coy to Goy
By Tamara BerensHow America’s far right found its anti-Semitic voice and figured out its true identity.
Observation ·
The Baffling Appeal of “Jews Don’t Count”
By Eli SpitzerCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Podcast: George Weigel on the Second Vatican Council and the Jews
By George Weigel, Tikvah Podcast at MosaicCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Podcast: Mitch Silber on Securing America’s Jewish Communities
By Tikvah Podcast at MosaicCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Podcast: Jay Greene on Anti-Semitic Leanings Among College Diversity Administrators
By Jay P. Greene, Tikvah Podcast at MosaicCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Canaries in the Coal Mine: Dara Horn and Bari Weiss
By Ruth R. WisseCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
“All the World Wants the Jews Dead: An Overwrought View from the Peak at the Bottom”
By Ruth R. WisseCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
