Adam Koltun is a writer and Conservative Jew from Chicago, Illinois. He also runs the blog The Artful Dialectic.
Adam Koltun
By Adam Koltun
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Community The Secret Jewish History Of The Greatest General You’ve Never Heard Of
John Monash is probably the greatest general of the 20th century that you’ve never heard of. It’s understandable – we do not teach or study WWI the way we do WWII, and especially for Americans, we focus hardly at all on Australian forces and commanders, of either war. In terms of skill, aptitude, ingenuity and…
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Community Dreideling Down in Dixie
A friend from Georgia once joked to me, “Everyone down here celebrates Christmas, even if you don’t celebrate Christmas.” The meaning of a Christmas tree in a Jewish home is different in a rural Southern town than it is in a Northern industrialized city. The story of Jewish assimilation and acceptance in the South has…
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Community What the Best Hanukkah Gift Taught Me About The American Left
This year’s overlap of the Jewish and Gregorian calendars has landed Hanukkah directly on top of Christmas. While also inspiring many pithy mashup titles, this has helped illustrate a truth that undercuts one of the polite fictions of Jewish life in America: that Hanukkah would look anything like how we celebrate it today if Christmas…
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Community Why Trump Supporters Are Infatuated With an Anime Character
In a recent article in the Forward titled, Decoding an Anti-Semitic Meme Donald Trump Supporters Took From Anime, Jay Michaelson uncovered a meme being circulated around the internet by White Nationalists of an anime character sporting a Trump hat. While there is a sad plethora of anime-inspired White Nationalist memes, it makes a lot of…
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