19 Stories I Wrote This Month for Jewish News Syndicate

Here's a rundown of my first month of full-time writing.

Yes, I do use a fountain pen throughout the work day as I’m taking notes of my plans. Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

Click here to check out the first 30 Installments - Volume I - in this series on Antisemitism and Culture. The top 5 most important pieces from this first wave:

1. What It Means When the Leader of the Republican Party Dines With THREE Antisemites

2. What Causes Someone to Be an Antisemite?

3. How the Bible Reveals the 3 Types of Antisemites

4. 7 Reasons This Christian Hippie Became a Zealot Against Jew Hatred

5. What Zionism Means to Me Today

This is the 26th installment in Volume II, intended as another 30 pieces exploring the many manifestations of Jew Hatred and the issues surrounding it in America and globally. See the 25 previous installments listed at the end of this article.

These writings are part of my ongoing effort to overcome my PTSD by forcing myself to try to write and publish something every day. “Politics is downstream from culture,” the late Andrew Breitbart popularized among conservative bloggers while he was alive. I’d go a step further: Everything is downstream from culture. The cultures you embrace determine who you are and who you become. You become what you worship.

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So I just had a realization: this new brief writer position that I started on May 1 with Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) is my first full-time writing position ever. All the other jobs and freelance gigs which I’ve had since beginning my full-time new media activist career in 2009 have had writing as a component of what I did but never as the primary task.

From 2009-2015 I was an editor, first at FrontPageMag and then at PJ Media. From 2016-2017 I was a researcher-writer-activist at the Middle East Forum, and from 2018-2021 I was director of research at The Israel Group (actually a half-time position which I supplemented with various freelance writing/editing/research gigs.) In all these roles I wrote a great deal but was always juggling it with other tasks.

So here’s what my first month of full-time writing looked like. This is not my complete output as many of my short articles run with the JNS byline. Ones which are longer or short ones with original interviews do run with my byline. And here they are:

Shorter Articles

1. Pew: Wives earn more than or the same as husbands in 45% of marriages

2. New budget in Indiana includes ‘major school-choice expansion’

3. US Jewish, pro-Israel groups respond to death of Israeli civilian after rocket hits Rehovot

4. New president of American Friends of Hebrew University is herself a student

5. Inaugural Skirball rabbi-in-residence position a ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’

6. Kashrut website warns about fake kosher symbols in India

7. Four years after Poway attack, Israeli paramedics train California synagogue staff

8. Embrace IHRA antisemitism definition, 160 Jewish groups tell UN

9. Central Shavuot text ‘all about kindness,’ says rabbi who published Arabic book of Ruth

10. New Hadassah government-relations head to focus on maternal issues

Longer Articles

1. Dallas Public Library head: ‘Nakba’ event was not approved; ‘it will not take place’

2. Israeli anthropologists to pro-BDS, US colleagues: We’re already fighting the state

3. Antisemitism ‘working definition’ not a ‘work in progress,’ say new IHRA co-presidents

4. Dershowitz: Amanpour equating terrorists and victims is ‘beneath contempt’ - Yes, I actually got to interview Alan Dershowitz. He’s probably the most famous person I’ve ever interviewed.

Antisemitic Incident Reports

Each day I’m reviewing the antisemitism-related stories in the news. Ones which aren’t big enough or unusual enough for a brief article of their own get added to the weekly round-up.

1. Antisemitic incident report: April 24-30, 2023

2. Antisemitic incident report: May 1-5, 2023

3. Antisemitic incident report: May 6-12, 2023

4. Antisemitic incident report: May 13-19, 2023

5. Antisemitic Incident Report: May 20-25, 2023

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See the previous installments in volume II of this series:

1. Martin Luther King, Jr: An American Hero and Courageous Zionist Voice

2. Talking to These Students Gave Me Hope in this Dark, Dark World of War and Hate

3. Why I Don't Expect the Palestinians Will *Ever* Make Peace with Israel and Thus Gain Statehood

4. The Antisemitism of Ron Paul's Far Right Anarcho-Capitalist Ideological Cult

5. When Holocaust Trivialization Manifests in the Wrestling World

6. 2 Numbers Which Reveal the Overwhelming Level of Human Devastation Wrought by the Holocaust

7. The Deep Depths of Ideological Depravity: Comparing the Holocaust to the Covid-19 Vaccine

8. Unfortunately, Christian Nationalism Is the Normal, Much More Longstanding Version of Christianity

9. Scratch a Supporter of Ron Paul, Donald Trump, & Vladimir Putin? Find a Pathetic, Frightened Antisemite

10. 7 Great Counterculture Authors Who Inspire My Writing and Zionist Activism

11. Why Twitter & Social Media Are Such a Poison Brew of Antisemitism, Hate, Death, and Lies

12. The Antisemitism of Noam Chomsky's Far Left Anarcho-Syndicalist Ideological Cult

13. All We Are Saying, Is Give Peace AND War a Chance

14. Why I Make a Point to Avoid Analyzing or Pontificating on Internal Israeli Politics

15. Joe Rogan: Just a Full-Blown Idiot, Not a Full-Blown Jew Hater... Yet...

16. How to Revive King & Heschel's Black & Jewish Anti-Racism Prophetic-Activist Partnership

17. Iran's Plan to Assassinate the World's Jewish Leaders

18. Fuck Elon Musk: Why I'm Now Boycotting Twitter

19. In Celebration of Noa Tishby, an Inspiring Israeli Warrior-Artist Fighting Antisemitism

20. Meet Gifted Canadian Zionist Writer Sadie-Rae Werner and Check Out These 10 of Her Essays

21. Bugging People About Fighting Jew Hatred

22. Kick Back Three Times As Hard

23. The Prophet Abraham and 75 Years of Israel's Independence

24. 3 Stories I Wrote Which Reveal How Humor Can Be a Potent Weapon Against Hate

25. Finally, Some Great News to Announce in this Antisemitism & Culture Series