A Train of Jew-Hate, Left and Right
July 23, 2025
There is a new form of Jew-hatred rising, and like every other form before it, it wears the mask of moral clarity.
Peter Himmelman
The Betrayal (Entering the Mindset of Gazan Workers in the Weeks Before Oct. 7)
July 16, 2025
The Palestinians will never be free by killing Jews. They will only be free when they free themselves from their eliminationist mindset.
‘As a Jew,’ I Love America
July 2, 2025
America is our home. Our flawed, beautiful, battered, and still-standing home. We don’t need to agree with everything in it to love it.
The Logic Behind a Preemptive Strike
June 18, 2025
What’s extraordinary here is that tiny Israel — just a sliver of land on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean — is doing what the entire Western world should have done long ago.
Why I Don’t Use the Word ‘Antisemitism’
May 7, 2025
I try my best to use another term. It’s simple and far more direct: Jew-hater.
How We Birth Tyrants
April 9, 2025
How does a single human being rise to such a height that millions come to bend to his will?
Becoming Sacred
October 2, 2024
An excerpt from Peter Himmelman’s new book, “Suspended by No String: A songwriter’s Reflections on Faith, Aliveness, and Wonder.”
A Day Like No Other
October 17, 2023
I feel as if I’m living in a lurid dream. A dream where the sky is made of dirt and the ground is made of air. I am lost in that dream.
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