Posts Tagged: Critical Race Theory
5 Ways US Jews Can Help Israel, by Helping Ourselves
JNS.org - Many American Jewish leaders have recently delivered scathing—even hysterical—criticism of Israel, particularly targeting the Israeli government’s efforts to reform its judiciary and strengthen...
Hanukkah Irony: The Holiday’s Real Message is Alien to Most American Jews
According to the most recent authoritative study of American Jewry, conducted in 2020 by the Pew Research Institute, approximately 80% of respondents said they owned...
The Jewish Stake in Resisting the War on School-Board Critics
JNS.org - In our bifurcated political culture, most Americans not only have forgotten how to listen to those who disagree with them but have also...
The Antisemitic Gall of a ‘Liberated’ Ethnic Studies Curriculum
The educator-activists who launched the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Institute (LESMC), a recently established California-based educational consulting group for K-12 schools, want you to...
Group of ‘Alarmed’ Holocaust Survivors, Descendants Press California Lawmakers on New Ethnic Studies Bill
Over 100 Holocaust survivors and their descendants issued an open letter on Thursday asking the California lawmakers to oppose a bill that would make ethnic...
Jews as Racial Villains: From Jewish Blackness to Jewish Whiteness
It was less than a century ago that white-presenting Jews were defined as Black. White supremacist arbiters of whiteness -- in an obsession with racial...
Uncritical Race Theory
Let me say at the outset that Critical Race Theory is a dangerous, completely unsubstantiated pseudo-theory of race that has now become dogma in academia....
Jewish Day Schools Should Not Teach Critical Race Theory as Established Dogma
JNS.org - When, about 10 years ago, I headed a pro-Israel organization that educated and trained high school and college students, I heard a frequent...
A Call to Action Against Oberlin’s ‘Professor of Peace’
JNS.org - Oberlin College professor Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, who has been given the title, “professor of peace,” is anything but. He has been accused of war...
The Problem With Ethnic Studies Isn’t Just How It Treats Jews
JNS.org - Some Jews are declaring victory. Their long battle to alter the draft of the proposed Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) for California public...
The Antisemitism Permission Slip Israel-Haters Wanted
JNS.org - Did the world need a new definition of antisemitism? Actually, no. The meaning of the term was fully explained in the document produced...
Antisemitism Gets Endorsed By the Grammys
JNS.org - For the last 10 months, many Americans have embraced the notion that their country is guilty of “systemic racism.” In the wake of...
How to Deal With Racism
I want to look at the current debate about racism from the point of view and the premise that prejudice or discrimination simply on the...
