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The Limits of Anti-Zionist Narratives during a Time of Genocide

Atalia Omer
September 22, 2026September 25, 2026

Moser’s archeological dig into Jewish pasts redirects attention away from Jewish accountability to Palestinians.

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Narrating the History of the American Anti-Zionist Jewish Left (Part 2)

Series: CM Conversations
Francesca Freeman and Benjamin Balthaser
July 1, 2026

The old oppositions between “secular” and “religious” Jewish life are breaking apart, at least on the left, and perhaps, were never really what we imagined them to be to begin with.

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Narrating the History of the American Anti-Zionist Jewish Left (Part 1)

Francesca Freeman and Benjamin Balthaser
June 24, 2026

What does the history of American Jewish anti-Zionism look like if one puts left-wing social movements at the center of that story?

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Professor Atalia Omer and guest lecturer Peter Beinart discussing Beinart's new book on March 3, 2025.

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza

Contending Modernities
June 17, 2025

Jews must now tell a new story to answer the horrors that a Jewish country has perpetrated, argues Peter Beinart.

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Photo of authors Ben Lorber and Shane Burley with cover image of their book Safety through Solidarity.

Safety through Solidarity: A Book Launch

Contending Modernities
January 27, 2025January 27, 2025

White supremacy, under the pretense of fighting antisemitism, is mounting an assault on minoritized communities. Understanding how antisemitism works is central to fighting back.

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Breaking With Formation: The Jew as Reactionary in American Media

Benjamin Balthaser
August 20, 2024September 30, 2024

The difference between the Jewishness of Sanders’s candidacy and Shapiro’s has less to do with who is more Jewish; it has a great deal to do with the way the idea of Jewishness has been constructed in the last few decades.

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Why are We Still Talking about the “Clash of Civilizations”? Anne Norton and the Search for the Andalusias of Modernity

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium
Atalia Omer
January 31, 2023January 27, 2024

Norton’s book illuminates the dynamics of sexual politics and how they operate to exclude, securitize, and otherize Muslims.

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What Friends Are For

Series: Symposium on The Moral Triangle
Sabine von Mering
March 4, 2022

Ultimately, politicians are not able to initiate peace from the top down. Peace can only come from the bottom up.

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The German State and the Creation of Un/Desired Communities

Series: Symposium on The Moral Triangle
Hannah Tzuberi and Nahed Samour
February 22, 2022February 1, 2024

The birth of a morally “improved” German collective necessitates the memory of the Holocaust to remain in vivid proximity, but also requires a sense of perpetual vulnerability of Jews in the present and future.

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Were There—and Can There Be—Arab Jews? (With Afterthoughts on the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism and Palestinian Jews)

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions
Moshe Behar
September 8, 2021September 23, 2021

The political realm must be tightly woven into every historical and contemporary reflection on Arab Jews.

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