BOLD like a Leopard

The desire to shift group identities based on victim-oppressor dynamics cannot supersede the way a social group feels based on its traditions and its lived present reality. This applies to Jews as well as anyone else. During the last decade the issues of racial identity politics - along with other identities based on gender, sexual orientation and religion - have seeped into conversations on every social issue from elite military unit composition to the casting of heroes and villains in comic books and movies. The course of this tendency has been masked as an attempt to bring a justice-oriented perspective to culture and politics that would better society in the long run and eliminate discrimination and prejudice. What it actually aims to do is divide and conquer existing identity groups, divorce them from their core traditions and beliefs, and bring them to heel under a new intellectual master class. No better purveyor of this fraudulent perspective exists than Temp...

Dathan and Abiram being swallowed by the Earth along with Korach's other co-conspirators. Identity, whatever that may be, has been fermented for political purposes for years, and unfortunately today many are waking up to the fact that it does not constitute an idea , let alone a belief system unless well thought out. There are many people walking around claiming identities that are not theirs, and then beyond that redefining them such that they mean nothing. The Jewish identity is not unique in this regard, as it is currently being packaged as a means to promote political agendas unrelated to it in the same manner that black, Hispanic, Muslim, homosexual, and even disabled identities are being used in order to coalesce as a bloc.  Although as a free speech absolutist and opponent of identity exploitation these efforts are a source of great frustration for me, it is difficult to propose a solution to the way such groups and individuals are ravaging the world of Judaism (and...