The Only Ones Waging A War On Christmas Are Evangelicals
Trump has fabricated a supposed assault on Christmas into a staple of white-nationalist mobilization.
We Jews Were Once Dreamers. We Must Stand Up For DACA.
Many of us know how sketchy the immigration records of our own forebears were.
Netanyahu Is Abandoning American Jews — Because He Can
We have never been further from Israel than we are at this point. Netanyahu has broken from the American Jewish community — because he can.
Hand-Me-Downs: The Lasting Power Of A Father’s Sweatshirt
“My father is by now seven years in his grave, and I remember vividly the last time I wore his sweatshirt.”
Like Nixon, Trump Carries Baggage To The Middle East
As Donald Trump sets off to Israel, it becomes apparent that he bears more resemblance to Richard Nixon than one may imagine.
Will Electing This Little-Known Jewish Democrat Stop Trump?
The concrete value of Jon Ossoff winning in Georgia is limited. The symbolic value, however, is vast.
If Trump Really Knew the Somalis of Minnesota, He Would Rethink His Cruel Ban on Refugees
On the last Sunday before the presidential election, Donald Trump swooped into the Minneapolis airport for a typically inflammatory rally. At a transit hub with hundreds of Somali employees, in a city with about 25,000 Somali residents, the Republican candidate fed his audience fear, rage and resentment. “Everybody’s reading about the disaster taking place in Minnesota,” he declared. Then he added ominously: “You don’t even know who is coming in. You have no idea. You’ll find out. You’ll find out.”
Why We Need Hanukkah’s Message of Righteous Rebellion in Age of Trump
When needs must, the Talmud says, a civil war may be necessary. Samuel G. Freedman calls for a Hanukkah-inspired war of resistance.
A Letter to My Evangelical Friend, Who Betrayed Me (and All Jews) by Voting for Trump
Samuel Freedman thought his friendship with an evangelical was a hopeful sign of Jewish-Christian rapprochement. Then came the evangelical landslide for Trump.
Bernie Sanders’s Rosh Hashanah Sermon — and Its Radical Lesson for All Liberals
Last year on Rosh Hashanah, Bernie Sanders spoke at Jerry Fallwell’s Liberty University—and it was the most important speech on religion and politics that any candidate has given this election cycle, argues Samuel G. Freedman.
