{"id":6938,"date":"2023-10-01T18:09:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T18:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=6938"},"modified":"2023-10-30T18:31:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:31:09","slug":"lipstadt-addresses-antisemitism-and-jewish-traditions-in-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2023\/10\/01\/lipstadt-addresses-antisemitism-and-jewish-traditions-in-ny-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Lipstadt Addresses Antisemitism and Jewish Traditions in NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/10\/lipstadt-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/10\/lipstadt-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/10\/lipstadt-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/10\/lipstadt-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/10\/lipstadt-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/10\/lipstadt.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.emory.edu\/home\/people\/bios\/lipstadt-deborah-e..html\">Deborah E. Lipstadt<\/a>, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, recently published an op-ed in <em>The New York Times<\/em>. Titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/14\/opinion\/antisemitism-jewish-pride.html?searchResultPosition=1\">Want to Fight Antisemitism? Embrace Jewish Traditions<\/a>,&#8221; the piece endorses combating antisemitism through an embrace of core tenets of Judaism itself, including (as Lipstadt writes) &#8220;its values, its moral teachings, its pursuit of justice.&#8221; Ambassador Lipstadt advances this argument in her role as the U.S. State Department&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/biographies\/deborah-lipstadt\/\">special envoy <\/a>to combat antisemitism and in the midst of a surge in antisemitic violence across the globe. Read an excerpt from <em>Tthe<\/em> <em>New York Times<\/em> article below, along with the full piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/14\/opinion\/antisemitism-jewish-pride.html?searchResultPosition=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Combating antisemitism requires a shift in perspective, I explained. It must sprout from a positive place. We must know what we are protecting from assault. We must be motivated far more by our love for the insights, wisdom and joy embedded in Jewish culture than by the fight against those who harbor an insane hatred of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, recently published an op-ed in The New York Times. Titled &#8220;Want to Fight Antisemitism? Embrace Jewish Traditions,&#8221; the piece endorses combating antisemitism through an embrace of core tenets of Judaism itself, including (as Lipstadt writes) &#8220;its values, its moral teachings, its pursuit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-antiracism","category-faculty","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6940,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938\/revisions\/6940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}