Bernie Sanders and the Other
No American Jew has done more damage to his own community than the senator from Vermont.
No Delusions, No Despair
On the Jewish struggle and other epochal matters.
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The Mamdani pogrom scenario
The protests the mayor has incited against Netanyahu could very well target all Jews.
Antisemitic electioneering always works
My latest JNS column on how the 250-year taboo on Jew-hating politics was broken by the Democrats.
The paradox of assimilation
The wages of trying to be just like everybody else.
The weeping antisemite
At JNS, I explore the issue of hate masquerading as empathy.
Are human rights real?
For the Jews, they have become a very bitter joke.
America’s upper-middle class antisemitism
The Jewish community has become the “safety valve” for this lumpen class’s discontents.
The assassination of memory
In a world determined to forget, to remember is a revolutionary act.
Bibi’s war on unity
The prime minister’s propensity for fomenting division threatens Israel itself.
Anti-Zionism is the most racist ideology in the world
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a Jew on the rack—forever.
The American Jewish disillusionment
My latest column at JNS explores the end of American Jewish delusions and counsels against despair.
The ‘settler-colonial’ libel is cultural genocide
The idea of the messianic return has been essential to Jewish identity for millennia.
The Democrats’ betrayal of the Jews
America is still a fine place and worth fighting for. Whether it will remain so is the question American Jews must now confront.
Netanyahu should never have trusted Trump
The prime minister ought to have remembered the wisdom of “The Godfather Part II.”
Bibi’s hubris
This time, Netanyahu flew too close to the sun.
The failure of progressive Judaism
We must ask, “What went wrong?”
Live with Alex Stein and Benjamin Kerstein
A recording from Benjamin Kerstein and Alex Stein's live video
Welcoming the death of Star Wars
American cinema may finally be recovering from a 50-year disease.
Education cannot kill antisemitism
The American Jewish establishment is still pursuing its old, failed policies.
Depraved empathy
Without judgment, empathy collapses into nihilism