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Mar 7, 2018, 6:26 PM

On friends and Farrakhan: A plea to progressives

Louis Farrakhan (AP/Paul Beaty)

It's not too much to expect progressive leadership to make wiser choices than embracing Louis Farrakhan in public

Jan 9, 2018, 6:29 PM

How Israel’s BDS blacklist falls short of its own goals

Jewish Voice for Peace members during a July 19, 2014 anti-Israel gathering in Boston. JVP has funded and advised Students for Justice in Palestine chapters for many years. (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

If Israel wanted to give a boon to marginal pro-boycott groups, this would be the way to do it

Nov 27, 2016, 3:38 PM

An urgent need for ambivalence

Time to dial down the outrage against Jewish leaders who haven't raised a battle cry

Sep 6, 2016, 3:26 PM

Why the witch hunts?

Handle internal community conflict firmly, but quietly -- rather than risk assassinating the character of good people

Aug 16, 2016, 7:10 PM

To my Muslim brethren: I see you

Whether or not the double murder in New York is labeled a hate crime, the fears they stirred are a call to action

Mar 3, 2016, 10:42 PM

What if Trump was one of us?

American Jewish identity plays an outsize role in this election, begging the question: who do we want to be?

Dec 9, 2015, 6:24 PM

Donald Trump’s hateful Star Wars gambit

Everyone, especially Jews, must resist the mythic Clash-of-Civilizations narrative of anti-Muslim demagoguery

Oct 7, 2015, 3:08 PM

Jewish continuity, between crisis and content

American Jewry’s insistence on its own demise is the surest guarantee of translating fears into prophesies

Jul 15, 2015, 10:31 AM

On Iran, from Hebron

Entrenchment in the historical status quo runs counter to the Jewish and Zionist imperative to seek change

May 12, 2015, 1:32 PM

Fire in a crowded alley

On the court decision to OK the Jerusalem Day march route through the Old City's Muslim Quarter

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About Me

Yehuda Kurtzer is the President of The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, a Fellow of The Shalom Hartman Institute’s iEngage Project, and the author of Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past (Brandeis, 2012).