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08 February 2023

17 Shevat 5783

Members of the Philos Action League at a vandalized Jewish cemetery in Waukegan, Illinois, November 2022. PAL volunteers bring white roses as a symbol of allyship.

As evangelical support for Israel—once rock solid—erodes, one Christian group is promoting a different kind of allyship by showing up when antisemitic attacks occur

byMaggie Phillips

Nicholas Young, a District of Columbia Metro Transit Police officer, was arrested by the FBI in 2015. He was a neo-Nazi and jihadist. In his house, investigators found a handwritten prayer for ‘Hitler, Skorzeny, Hajj Amin al-Hussaini, Mussolini, Saddam Hussein, Prophet Muhamed, John the Baptist & all the Companions.’

Intersectional Antisemitism in America

The internet has brought jihadists, neo-Nazis, and anarchists together through their shared hatred of Jews

byLorenzo Vidino

‘You People’ Is a Warning, You People

The new Netflix offering accurately portrays the yawning void at the heart of secular Jewish and African American identity

byLiel Leibovitz

No sooner had Netflix released its new comedy “You People” last weekend than the bien-pensants of cyberspace began shrieking condemnations or crowing words of praise. Depending on who you asked, the movie—about a young Jewish man who falls in love with a young Black woman, much to the bafflement of their misguided families—was either this generation’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” a brave and honest meditation on race relations in America, or the latest salvo of anti-Jewish vitriol this side of Kyrie Irving and Kanye West. I’ve got good news: It’s neither. It’s still very much worth watching, though, because “You People,” hallelujah, is just the major motion picture that American Jews deserve.

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BHL & Sharansky – ‘Freedom and Tyranny’

At the Museum of Jewish Heritage, THIS SUNDAY, Feb. 12, 2023 3:00 p.m. ET. All profit from the event goes toward Ukrainian Winter Relief

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‘You People’

Intersectional Antisemitism in America

The internet has brought jihadists, neo-Nazis, and anarchists together through their shared hatred of Jews

byLorenzo Vidino

‘You People’ Is a Warning, You People

The new Netflix offering accurately portrays the yawning void at the heart of secular Jewish and African American identity

byLiel Leibovitz

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On Putin and Babyn Yar

An exclusive Tablet interview with Ilya Khrzhanovsky

byVladislav Davidzon

The Outback’s Jewish Museum

Once it was a synagogue serving Jewish immigrants in a remote Australian mining town. Today, it’s a reminder of a history many have forgotten.

byNomi Kaltmann

As the field of queer studies has become more influential, some of its proponents have pushed the idea that opposing Israel’s existence is a natural position for gays and lesbians to adopt.

Roundtables on the state of the American Jewish community, bringing together people from a shared demographic or background—everyday people with personal opinions, not experts who earn their salaries discussing these issues.

A German Leopard 2A6 tank on maneuvers in Augustdorf, February 2023

Can America Keep Failing Upward?

American bumbling has paradoxically promoted the long-standing U.S. policy goals of greater German and Japanese military engagement. But we should be careful what we wish for.

byJeremy Stern

Camp Crowder vs ‘Big Con’

What the rumors about a conservative star reveal about the new media empires of the online right

byRoss Anderson

That moment on the hills of Tiberias awakened something in me. Maybe it was because it was my first time seeing people my age voluntarily participating in Jewish observance. Whatever it was, all I knew then was that I wanted to do what they were doing.

—Hayim Leiter

Camp Crowder vs ‘Big Con’

What the rumors about a conservative star reveal about the new media empires of the online right

byRoss Anderson

—Hayim Leiter