I write about Jewish history, diaspora, antisemitism, antizionism, and the extremist movements that feed off both, because the version that gets taught and the version that actually happened are rarely the same thing.
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From the Inquisition to Recife: The Jews of Brazil
A 500-year history of expulsion, rebuilding, and a synagogue that came back from the dead
This is a continuation of The 1500 Year Betrayal: The Jews Who Built Spain and The Jews Portugal Couldn’t Erase. If you haven’t read those yet, start...
THE LIONESS LEDGER
Happy Sunday, and Happy Father’s Day to the dads here with us.
Sixteen pieces this week, which by now you know means a packed one. Between diaspora history, a few hard conversations, and some pieces I’d call essential reading, there’s a lo...
Why Are Jewish Kids Turning Against Israel?
Start With Who's Teaching Their Rabbis.
One in three young American Jews now identifies as antizionist or non-Zionist. That number didn’t come out of thin air. It was built very deliberately over decades inside the institutions Jewish fami...
The Biggest Fraud in the Arab World
Arab journalists are calling it the biggest fraud ever committed against their people. The Western press hasn't seem to have noticed.
Between $3 and $4 billion was raised in Gaza’s name over the past three years. Arab journalists and analy...
The Men Who Made the Movies
The ship docked in February 1884 and Karl Lämmle stepped onto American soil at Castle Garden with fifty dollars in his pocket and a name that wouldn’t survive the decade. He was seventeen years old, traveling on a ticket his father had boug...
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I write about media literacy, modern antisemitism, history, and what happens when truth gets flattened into slogans. This space slows things down, adds context, and pushes back on easy narratives. Nuance isn’t weakness. Pull up a chair.
Essays and reflections from a PBS documentary filmmaker working at the intersection of ethics, power, and lived experience. Gofundme link - https://gofund.me/731ec8df0
Fearless political writing for people who think the world has lost its mind. Our enemies use language and inversion against us: Objection is hatred, Fear is prejudice, Anxiety is Extremism.
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