Higher Ed Anxiety
November 27, 2024
The Essential Guide to Perplexed Jewish Students Applying to College This Fall – and Their Parents
Gil Troy
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Jew – the Bad Guys!
November 5, 2024
The caricature conveys the book’s bold, powerful, unapologetic claim: Although Jew-hatred is an unfortunate fact of life, in this twisted world, it’s actually a mark of respect.
The Jewish Vote: Can Both Sides Join a Patriotic Chorus?
October 30, 2024
Although most American Jews support Israel, in the voting booth, their civic, liberal selves predominate.
The Academic Intifada Defeats the Association for Jewish Studies
October 10, 2024
Translating this high falutin’ doublespeak, the AJS proclaimed that while departments and universities should not boycott Israeli universities formally, it’s ok if individual professors informally boycott Israeli, Zionist, or even Jewish professors.
Zionism After October 7
October 2, 2024
Cataclysmic events challenge us to reset, reframe and reclaim. Similarly, the profound Jewish New Year process invites us to look in the mirror, update perspectives and change anything there we don’t want to see.
TikTok Banned My New Book Even Before It Was Published
September 18, 2024
TikTok’s Jew-hating problem predates October 7
Israel Mourns: Songs of Life Defy the Valley of Death
September 4, 2024
Song of Songs reassures us — and our grieving nation — that floods cannot drown love; Hamas can’t either.
The Jewish People’s Guide to Oct. 7 and its Aftermath
July 25, 2024
This is a condensed version of a guidebook articulating answers to basic, pressing questions – while hoping to trigger debates about the ongoing dilemmas facing Israel, the Jewish people and America.
12 Tough Questions and Simple Answers About Israel
June 19, 2024
I hope that all of you will use my answers as springboards for more formal and informal discussions clarifying where you agree – and where you disagree – with me, with Israel, with others.
Jews Are Becoming More, Not Less, Zionist
May 8, 2024
Zionists understand that Jews are a people not just a religion, with millennia-old ties to one particular homeland, and the right to build a state on that homeland.
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