https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to American Jews en https://religiondispatches.org/2023/01/12/enjoy-kosher-collard-greens-understand-hebrew-israelites-have-something-say-rest-jewish At the 1995 Source Awards, Outkast’s Andre3000, delivered his now iconic shot across the bow in which he informed the hip-hop world that “The South Got Something to Say.” Moving from the margins of the culture to its center, the… Thu, 12 Jan 2023 03:23:05 EST Andre E. Key, Walter Isaac, Tamar Manasseh 6b5aa547-4ec5-467a-97ad-f91c5013867e https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/24/citing-jewish-law-florida-synagogue-challenges-abortion-ban-heres-problem-religious Days before the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey , a Florida synagogue filed a lawsuit challenging Florida’s abortion ban on the grounds that it violates Jews’ religious freedom. Halakhah, or Jewish law, the… Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:34:36 EDT Rebecca Epstein-Levi 411e5ad3-73b6-47f9-a11d-e464586d55ac https://religiondispatches.org/2021/04/15/battle-antisemitism-definitions-actually-proxy-war-criticism-israel Last month, a global consortium of leading scholars released the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA), the product of a year-long labor to produce a new working definition of antisemitism that builds upon the widely-cited, but nearly as widely critiqued and… Thu, 15 Apr 2021 02:28:50 EDT Joshua Shanes 30b5cf4a-ebfb-4494-8fca-476a204bb8e6 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/12/11/hanukkah-marks-complexities-assimilation-and-syncretism-faced-american-jews Hanukkah isn’t for everyone. This has been true since its beginnings, as it celebrates victory in internecine military conflict and a triumph over assimilation. Even so, the majority of the 15 million Jews in the world will celebrate the festival… Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:00:27 EST Yehuda Kurtzer c021e13d-2283-4891-b8e8-d9f452fbca8b https://religiondispatches.org/2020/12/08/can-white-jews-still-be-white-if-theyre-reviled-white-supremacists Under Trump’s presidency there has been a rise in high profile anti-Jewish incidents. Perhaps because these incidents are often perpetrated by white supremacists who hold denigrating racialized views of Jews, writers have responded by asking whether white Jews in the… Tue, 08 Dec 2020 03:45:31 EST SJ Crasnow 8319b94a-9852-4673-9b6d-021ce55e2ce6 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/12/15/how-religion-shaped-american-jewish-masculinity What inspired you to write Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism ? There’s a story I tell near the beginning of the book: I was in the midst of researching and writing the book, and a group of leaders… Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:03:33 EST Sarah Imhoff 4c644329-aa46-4700-a188-80565c07e5c2 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/11/04/when-rabbis-seized-control-synagogue-role-authority-american-judaism In this RD10Q, historian Zev Eleff uncovers the little-known story of how American Jews became a clergy-led community. Fri, 04 Nov 2016 05:39:15 EDT Zev Eleff aeb4cd4a-aef8-4dae-8ac0-cab89fc55cf7 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/08/02/violent-genocidal-anti-palestinian-rhetoric-moving-us For decades, Jewish leaders outside of Israel have publicly supported the Israeli government, but they have expressed regret for the souls lost on both sides. Is that rhetoric changing? Sat, 02 Aug 2014 12:46:37 EDT David Sheen 231b1689-8f27-4957-91bb-a361acf09cc7 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/05/23/american-jews-holocaust-new-age-hasidism If traditional notions of Judaism and Jewishness are at odds with the contemporary world, one can either change Judaism, or one can change the world. A new book makes a case for the former. Thu, 23 May 2013 04:21:01 EDT Martin Kavka 78bf69d1-6f41-4233-8c96-788ca104d8e0 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/05/17/peter-beinarts-controversial-crisis-zionism-right-diagnosis-wrong-treatment Not since The Israel Lobby has a Jewish book evoked so much ire and criticism from the American Jewish community. Thu, 17 May 2012 06:36:41 EDT Shaul Magid 596bd4a0-f507-469c-93c3-6dce8342ecc5 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/27/sad-saga-compromised-rabbi Are the Jews in trouble? From the outside, things look quite good. Anti-Semitism is at an all-time low in the United States. The U.S. administration seems to allow Israel to do what it wants, even as many of us disagree with what it is choosing to do. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:10:02 EDT Shaul Magid 5ea1a228-5f05-4d1b-9775-6b85524621df https://religiondispatches.org/2010/11/19/nonviolent-resistance-west-bank-review-budrus The positive reception of Budrus in the U.S. says a lot about the political climate today. The right-wing “pro-Israel” movement is going through a tough time. It has always built its public appeal on one simple narrative: Israel wants peace, but it must fight to ward off implacable violence from its enemies. Anything Israel does is justified because it’s in self-defense. Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:17:33 EST Ira Chernus 3f83c828-9626-405c-9d2f-88aaaf218466 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/06/08/clueless-gaza The Daily Alert newsletter sent by the Conference of Presidents of American Jewish Organizations is quite predictable: the news sources it quotes are either the official statements of Israeli officials or media articles supportive of… Tue, 08 Jun 2010 05:31:11 EDT Shalom Goldman 7cc3a7ae-fdc9-4b69-840b-e30d0d3c9b71