Pew's latest: 37% of Americans say religion is gaining influence, the highest since 2002 and up 19 points in two years. Awareness of "Christian nationalism" also up sharply. Most still want churches out of elections. pewresearch.org/religion/202...

Loved speaking with the Berman Archive about how I researched HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY bermanarchive.stanford.edu/excavating-t...

We spoke with @mollycrabapple.bsky.social about her research, her editorial choices, and what a century-old movement has to say to the American Jewish present. bermanarchive.stanford.edu/excavating-t...

Middlebury College's Hillel board voted 7-1 to disaffiliate from Hillel International over its Israel stance. Blocked by the college, they renamed the group instead. First campus where the push came from Hillel itself. @forward.com forward.com/news/824410/...

Private Equity has taken majority stakes in PopUp Bagels, Call Your Mother & H&H. @miraefox.bsky.social argues in the @forward.com that the logic of enshittification virtually guarantees a degraded product — & the deeper loss may be cultural. forward.com/culture/8240...

SRE Network's Rachel Gildiner: the glass ceiling metaphor is wrong. Women's leadership is a labyrinth: constant turns, not one final barrier. Her equity framework for Jewish orgs includes policies, noticing & naming, and allyship as arevut. ejewishphilanthropy.com/the-labyrint...

“A core feature of antisemitism is the stereotyping of Jewish identity... When institutions treat Jews as a politically homogenous bloc, who all support Israel, it obscures the real diversity of our community.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

When Deborah Brodie died in February, her daughter inherited a massive Judaica collection meant to educate and engage students with special needs. Unclear what to do with the trove of objects, she turned to Instagram. Now the Capital Jewish Museum in DC will house it all. www.jta.org/2026/05/01/u...

I'm giving a free online talk about the history of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society of New York on June 2, along with Dave Levitt, son and grandson of members of this klezmer mutual aid society. Hosted by the @workerscircle.bsky.social 😁

*In the Berman Archive* It's May Day. Read Will Herberg's 1952 survey of the Jewish labor movement in America, from sweatshop radicalism to the New Deal. A movement that Americanized the immigrant Jewish worker, and remade American labor in the process. exhibits.stanford.edu/bermanarchiv...

Members of the Jewish Labour Bund march in a May Day parade in Bialystok, Poland, May 1, 1934. Happy May Day, everyone.

the leadership of the american jewish community only misleads

Our April roundup of Jewish research is out: back-to-back polls on the Iran war, new data on platform-driven antisemitism, campus prejudice research from Brandeis, computational Holocaust studies, and a newly mapped Soviet Yiddish press database. bermanarchive.stanford.edu/documensch-a...

LA mayor candidate Adam Miller, former Ikar synagogue president: "To the vast majority of Angelenos, antisemitism is certainly not a top issue. But as a Jew, antisemitism, freedom of speech, protection of religious freedom, is extremely important. And we can do better." forward.com/news/821818/...

Catcher in the Rye Bread: Newly surfaced 1951 letters show J.D. Salinger asked his publisher to scrub references to his Jewish-Irish heritage from The Catcher in the Rye's jacket fearing "second-rate reviewers" would pigeonhole him. The letters go on sale this week. forward.com/fast-forward...

Catcher in the Rye Bread: Newly surfaced 1951 letters show J.D. Salinger asked his publisher to scrub references to his Jewish-Irish heritage from The Catcher in the Rye's jacket fearing "second-rate reviewers" would pigeonhole him. The letters go on sale this week. forward.com/fast-forward...

Off Center: US universities have launched a wave of antisemitism centers since Oct. 7. Many are led by non-experts & shaped by donors. Jewish Studies scholars warn the trend substitutes ideology for expertise. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

CA's June 2 voter guide carries a fringe candidate's screed blaming "Israel art students" for 9/11 & linking to a Goyim Defense League site. JCAN wants the Sec. of State to explain. @jewishsf.bsky.social has the story: jweekly.com/2026/04/24/a...

New in Jewish Culture and History: how Quaker Holocaust rescue work is being reread through the politics of Israel-Palestine. Holocaust memory isn't fixed. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New from Rosov's Alex Pomson on the Jim Joseph Foundation's longitudinal educator study: Jewish educators' commitment barely budges year-to-year. What moves is satisfaction. ejewishphilanthropy.com/supervision-...

i worked for the National Yiddish Book Center for a minute when I was a Smith student!

Today is Yom Ha'atzmaut, Independence Day in Israel. The 1950 American Jewish Year Book, in our collections, captured the founding year as it happened: UN admission, first elections, 247K immigrants in 13 months. exhibits.stanford.edu/bermanarchiv...

Wexner Foundation alumni, whose careers were supported by Epstein-linked money, are launching a fund for Epstein survivors. @jewishcurrents.bsky.social has the story: jewishcurrents.org/jewish-leade...

The House released an antisemitism report naming Sarah Lawrence College and didn't speak to @joelhs.bsky.social, the sole full-time Jewish Studies Prof on campus. In his piece for the @forward, he says the federal govt is speaking over Jews, not for them. forward.com/opinion/8197...

Antisemitism on campus is not one problem but three, finds a new report from the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social. Nearly half of Jewish students reported experiencing prejudice in fall 2025. 👉 www.brandeis.edu/cmjs/antisem...

Hampshire College is closing. @forward.com archivist Chana Pollack remembers it as the site of her Yiddish awakening, and the original home of the Yiddish Book Center. forward.com/culture/8188...

Antisemitism on campus is not one problem but three, finds a new report from the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social. Nearly half of Jewish students reported experiencing prejudice in fall 2025. 👉 www.brandeis.edu/cmjs/antisem...

Hampshire College is closing. @forward.com archivist Chana Pollack remembers it as the site of her Yiddish awakening, and the original home of the Yiddish Book Center. forward.com/culture/8188...

Grateful for the chance to discuss my forthcoming volume, SANCTIONED BIGOTRY, out next month with @yalepress.bsky.social

Antisemitism in America isn't just a conspiracy theory — it has been a political project to deny Jews equal rights. Historian Britt Tevis makes the case with 178 archival documents. Interview in the Documensch newsletter and on our website. bermanarchive.stanford.edu/antisemitism...

For Yom HaShoah: James Young's 1995 essay on how Holocaust memory is shaped by medium and nation: “The ‘art of memory’ remains incomplete…until we who remember the Holocaust have grasped — and then responded to — current suffering in the world.” exhibits.stanford.edu/bermanarchiv...

For Yom HaShoah: James Young's 1995 essay on how Holocaust memory is shaped by medium and nation: “The ‘art of memory’ remains incomplete…until we who remember the Holocaust have grasped — and then responded to — current suffering in the world.” exhibits.stanford.edu/bermanarchiv...

Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. "Never Again" is not a slogan. It is a call to action. A demand that we prevent not just the violence of the Holocaust, but the steps that created an environment where that violence was possible.

Musician & poet Alicia Jo Rabins shares a Book Notes playlist for her feminist Jewish memoir When We're Born We Forget Everything: slections from Arvo Pärt, Leonard Cohen, klezmer & more. largeheartedboy.com/2026/03/27/a...

Better Together: New Jim Joseph Foundation case study on a shared Jewish campus in Newton, MA. Hebrew College, Temple Reyim, Keshet, Jewish Women's Archive & others. The collaboration is saving money and sparking ideas. jimjosephfoundation.org/wp-content/u...

Closing the Book: 42 Jewish authors accuse the Jewish Book Council of sidelining non-Zionist voices. www.jta.org/2026/04/10/c...

Two new polls this week: Pew finds 60% of Americans view Israel unfavorably (up 20 pts since 2022), while 56% of U.S. Jews lack confidence in Netanyahu. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Mordecai Kaplan founded Reconstructionism on the idea that Jews should choose Judaism freely, not out of obligation. A new bio by Jenna Weissman Joselit asks why that vision never quite took hold. 👉 www.jta.org/2026/04/07/c...

18Doors, the national interfaith Jewish family nonprofit, cut nearly 2/3 of its staff after a funding shortfall citing donor shift toward Israel & antisemitism causes post-Oct. 7. www.jta.org/2026/04/07/u...

Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (@jfrejnyc.bsky.social) held a Passover Seder outside Palantir's NYC HQ to protest its $30M ICE contract: ~15 arrested in lobby sit-in. religionnews.com/2026/04/07/j...

As Trump threatens to destroy Iranian civilization by tonight, Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh writes about what this war means to Iranian Jews in the diaspora, and why Passover's tradition of asking questions has never felt more urgent. ejewishphilanthropy.com/our-narrow-s...

Preemptive strike: The Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly pulled resources on American racism & Nazi ideology and canceled a democracy workshop, moves two former staffers say were preemptive self-censorship under Trump. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

A coalition of Oklahoma Jews moved to intervene in the federal lawsuit against a proposed virtual K-12 that would become the country's first publicly funded religious school, arguing the state's existing defendants can't be trusted uphold the constitution. www.jta.org/2026/04/06/p...

In SF, Passover this year includes an Asian-Jewish brunch in Oakland with ube macaroons and cardamom matzoh, an adults-only "liberation chic" seder at Or Shalom, and a USF climate-justice seder in partnership with @joindayenu.bsky.social. 👉 www.thebolditalic.com/passover-in-...

salute to @danblacksberg.bsky.social and his cohort featured in this article. also lol @ the subtitle "A rag-tag group of younger adults has rediscovered the West Germanic language"

Two women cantors are racing to preserve Persian Jewish liturgical music before the diaspora loses it entirely. Galeet Dardashti sings with her grandfather's archival recordings; Jacqueline Rafii turned old cassette tapes into the first written notation. [@forward.com] forward.com/culture/8169...

A Conservative shul in NJ becomes a case study in American Jewish rupture over Israel and Gaza. Read Eyal Press’ sweeping piece for the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Loose War Footing: Two new polls this week both find a majority of American Jews opposed to the war with support concentrated among Republican and Orthodox Jews. www.jta.org/2026/03/30/u...

Chag Pesach Sameach! Wishing everyone a peaceful, joyous, and meaningful Passover. May this season of liberation inspire us to keep working toward a more just and equitable world — for all. 📖 One last thing, add a little feminism to your Seder table and visit: ncjw.org/passover

California's SB 1387 would add "Jewish" as an optional ethnic identity on state govt forms, a US first aimed at closing data gaps on hate crimes & Jewish students. A UC Berkeley demographer urges caution. via @jewishsf.bsky.social jweekly.com/2026/03/30/c...