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Joel Swanson

Joel Swanson is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Sarah Lawrence College. He holds a PhD in the History of Judaism from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and his writing has appeared in Haaretz, the Times of Israel, the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Forward, and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

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Religion Dispatches
Trivializes Jewish history, reveals what this administration thinks of Jews
Last week, in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Vice President JD Vance accused critics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of committing “blood libel” against ICE agents. As…
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Religion Dispatches
On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, making him the latest in a string of American public officials to visit a former…
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