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Ari Y. Kelman

By Ari Y. Kelman

Opinion
Open Letter | Brandeis University Press is silencing debate

Read a response to this letter from Brandeis University Press here. We are a group of scholars whose research is connected to American Jewish history and experience. All of us have read the preface that Professor Marc Dollinger submitted to Brandeis University Press this fall. We hold a variety of perspectives about its claims and…

By Ari Y. Kelman, and Beth S. Wenger, and Cheryl Greenberg, and Deborah Dash Moore, and Eric L. Goldstein, and Lila Corwin Berman, and Riv-Ellen Prell, and Shaul Magid, and Tony Michels Dec 23, 2020 | 4 min read
Opinion
Jewish Students Just Want You To Stop Talking About Israel

If you’re a sentient American Jew, you’ve heard the claim that college campus is a warzone. It’s beyond a well-rehearsed truism at this point. It’s become reigning orthodoxy to view Jewish college students as beset by anti-Semitic harassment in liberal, Israel-hating college campuses, which are themselves seen as volatile surrogate battlefields to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict….

By Ari Y. Kelman Sep 5, 2017 | 3 min read
Opinion
Getting Jewish Students Out of Comfort Zone Isn’t ‘Anti-Semitic’

You can learn a lot from students if you stop telling them what you think they ought to know, and let them tell you what they know already. Jeff Salkin’s recent op-ed, however, encourages a kind of Jewish education that would fill students with “the Jewish narrative” (as if there’s only one) that they could…

By Ari Y. Kelman May 15, 2015 | 3 min read

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