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Thane Rosenbaum

McCosh 50, the largest lecture hall on campus, renovated in 2021. Credit: Politics Is Exciting via Wikimedia Commons.

Colleges already flunking their tests on antisemitism

In a woke minefield, disarming antisemitism is of very low priority. Another academic year and so many new accusations against Jews to learn.

Thane Rosenbaum

September 6, 2023

Former President Donald Trump holds a rally for supporters in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Sept. 3, 2022. Source: Twitter/Mohegan Sun Arena.

Indictment meltdown

It is safe to say this is more than enough legal jeopardy for a single human being to manage—especially one running for president. The campaign trail will be one long march of legal trials.

Thane Rosenbaum

August 20, 2023

American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

‘Oppenheimer’ and the lesson of brainy Jews

As if the atomic bomb and its potential to destroy the world wasn’t enough tension, Nolan introduces another Jewish character, Lewis Strauss—the opportunist to Oppenheimer’s moral idealist.

Thane Rosenbaum

August 7, 2023

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) speaks at the Hands Off Budget rally in Washington, D.C. on May 24, 2017. Credit: AFGE/Wikipedia.

Germs, race and newfangled hatreds

Jew-hatred comes in many sizes, shapes and colors, a vast cornucopia of contempt.

Thane Rosenbaum

July 24, 2023

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, 2013. (Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States)

That lonely Jewish seat on the Supreme Court

Don’t be surprised if Kagan remains the lone Jewish Justice for some time.

Thane Rosenbaum

July 11, 2023

Kippah or yarmulke on the background of the American Flag. Credit: Shabtay/Shutterstock.

The rudderless Jews

In the United States, where crimes of hate mostly strike Jewish targets, and with violent antisemitism making a disquieting comeback, no one stands guard on the wall.

Thane Rosenbaum

June 29, 2023

U.S. President Donald Trump at his desk in the White House, Dec. 21, 2018. Credit: Shealah Craighead/White House.

With Trump, all bets are off

No one has ever made better use of bad publicity. The worse it gets, the more energized he seemingly becomes, and the more devotedly his base responds.

Thane Rosenbaum

June 12, 2023

Margot Robbie in "Babylon."

Purging the Jews of ‘Babylon’

“Babylon” went out of its way to foster inclusion for every category of identity except for the one responsible for moving the nascent film industry to Los Angeles, erecting studios, sound stages and an entire city to support it—in what had been a barren wasteland.

Thane Rosenbaum

March 6, 2023

Supreme Court justices arrive for a hearing in Jerusalem on the appointment of Shas leader Aryeh Deri as a government minister, Jan. 5, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel’s shadowy constitution

Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, is undergoing a constitutional crisis.

Thane Rosenbaum

February 21, 2023