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Joshua Leifer

Joshua Leifer is a staff writer for Jewish Currents and has contributed essays and reporting to Dissent, +972, the Guardian, and n+1.

A Moses-like figure waves a wand over a parade of Jewish American figures of different eras and political bents, from nineteenth-century European immigrants to a man in an IDF uniform and a MAGA hat.

Led Astray

There is a disjuncture at the heart of the American Jewish politics. Most American Jews know very little about the institutions that claim to represent them, and the leaders of these institutions share few of the political and religious commitments held by most American Jews. ...