Seth Mandel

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  • May 27, 2025
    Today, to mark Yom Yerushalayim—the day commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem under Jewish sovereignty—a group of Israelis did something provocative and...
  • May 7, 2025
    There is a war on history so ruthless and pervasive that I should say up front that there is, believe it or not, a silver lining. Two, actually. But first, the bleak part. When it...
  • Apr 29, 2025
    Take Linden, the latest in a line of localities that have used zoning laws to enforce an unofficial quota of Jewish residents. In 2017, the town began passing zoning laws in an...
  • Apr 25, 2025
    UnBroken is an unusual Holocaust documentary. The film, now streaming on Netflix, tells the story of seven siblings, the Webers, who survived the war together—the only known...
  • Apr 16, 2025
    Harvard University is earning praise for standing up to the Trump administration’s attempts to place burdensome restrictions on the school’s federal funding. The argument...
  • Apr 4, 2025
    Unlike most voters, American Jews apparently do not get to choose which policies or government actions they support based on political principles. There’s a list, you see, of...
  • Mar 21, 2025
    There’s a fascinating detail in a Semafor scoop on President Trump’s legal battles. Trump has declared the influential law firm of Paul Weiss persona non grata, in...
  • Mar 19, 2025
    Momodou Taal is suing the Trump administration to stop the full implementation of the president’s executive order titled “Additional Measures To Combat...
  • Mar 12, 2025
    The Trump administration’s deportation proceedings against Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia student active in the anti-Zionist tentifada movement, is getting most of the...
  • Mar 10, 2025
    Gal Gadot received the ADL’s International Leadership Award last night, and opened her speech in an interesting way: “My name is Gal. I’m a mother, a...
  • Mar 4, 2025
    Last night’s Oscars ceremony honored the film No Other Land with an award, but the acceptance speeches unwittingly paid homage to an old classic, the 1966 big-screen...
  • Feb 26, 2025
    In order to believe anti-Semitism isn’t at a crisis point, you’d have to believe in coincidences to a degree that would strain credulity. Two recent controversies provide...
  • Feb 13, 2025
    American anti-Semitism has a Benjamin Button problem. Past studies have shown that young people are less likely to hold and express traditionally racist views. I say...
  • Jan 31, 2025
    President Trump has signed a new executive order to fight anti-Semitism. The key to its provenance and purpose is a series of events on Nov. 9, 2023, at the Massachusetts...
  • Jan 28, 2025
    The popular Brooklyn restaurant Miriam, which serves Israeli food, was vandalized over the weekend by anti-Semitic agitators who painted “Genocide Cuisine” and...
  • Jan 3, 2025
    Sometimes the events most worthy of our outrage can go woefully under-protested simply because they sound silly. The latest example comes to us from the wide sporting world...