We, Too, Lived in Miraculous Times

Since the early days of Zionism, as my colleague Noam Zion has convincingly demonstrated, Hanukkah has undergone major revision and reinvention — a process paralleled in contrasting ways throughout the American Jewish experience. It is majestic to see these adaptive…

Antisemitism, and the Inconvenience of Collective Identity

Recentralizing the Center

In this amazingly open moment in American Jewish history, in the spirit of innovation, and in the hope of fostering further communal conversation both in public (as our exciting age of transparent communication demands) and behind closed doors (where the work can really get done), I…