What Jews Can Celebrate About America, and What America Can Celebrate About Jews
July 4, 2026
The story of the Jews and the Left, as Ungar-Sargon tells it, is a story of love and loss.
Pamela Paresky
A social psychologist with a clinical background, Dr. Paresky serves as Senior Advisor to the Open Therapy Institute, Advisor to the Mindful Education Lab at New York University, Senior Fellow at the Network Contagion Research Institute, and Associate at Harvard University. In addition to The Jewish Journal, her work appears in Psychology Today, The Guardian, Politico, Sapir, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She has taught at Johns Hopkins, the University of Chicago, and the United States Air Force Academy, and writes the Habits of a Free Mind newsletter on Substack. Follow her on Twitter at @PamelaParesky
Students Seem Determined to Illustrate That ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’ Is Still Relevant
May 27, 2026
Matching the national average, seven out of 10 Dartmouth students refuse to endorse the idea that it is never acceptable to shout down a speaker, and five in 10 say there are instances when it is acceptable to block other students from attending a speech.
It Was Never About the Victims
April 7, 2026
In contradistinction to those whose intact moral compass tells them that violently attacking another human being is immoral regardless of identity categories, the progressive imagination doesn’t find immorality in the act of violence at all. It locates morality in identity, not conduct.
Belonging Matters. And Mattering Matters Too.
February 11, 2026
A society that maximizes belonging while severing it from standards produces conformity, not freedom. A society that encourages mattering divorced from truth produces fanaticism, not dignity. Life and liberty depend on holding the two together.
Why Is the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Definition of Antisemitism “Controversial”?
January 11, 2026
The IHRA definition does not target criticism of Israel. Nor does it criminalize or even censor anti-Israel speech.
Living in an Upside-Down World
August 7, 2025
Terrorists and budding terrorists are referred to as “survivors,” who, we’re told with no caveats, “blame Israel for their wounds.”
In Israel, Every Day is October 7. In the U.S., Every Day is October 8.
October 9, 2024
Jews across the world have the sense that the “universal collective” to which we thought we finally belonged has thrown us out and turned its back.
An Urgent Message to President Biden from a Concerned Jew
April 8, 2024
Where is the President who said, “As long as the United States stands — and we will stand forever — we will not let [Israel] ever be alone?”
Shattered
March 12, 2024
There is no word in the psychological lexicon for what happened on Oct. 7 or the new world in which Israelis now live. But “shattered” comes closer than “trauma.”
In a World of Loud and Violent Antisemitism, Listen to the Whispers
February 16, 2023
With the help of animators, illustrators, and musicians, filmmakers at the Center for Peace Communication (CPC) are turning Gazans’ private whispers into publicly defiant cries.
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