"American liberal Judaism became a religion rather than an ethnicity, and more ominously, a 'cult of integration'"

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"American liberal Judaism became a religion rather than an ethnicity, and more ominously, a 'cult of integration'"

Professor David Barak-Gorodetsky, University of Haifa, explains how decisions that American Judaism made a century ago turned the response to Israel's War in Gaza into an existential threat to US Jews

Dec 04, 2023

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Today, we focus on a conversation with Professor David Barak-Gorodetsky of Haifa University, who has a fascinating analysis of why the rise in anti-Semitism on the American left is not only gravely disappointing and painful for American Jews, but more ominously, perhaps an exis…

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