Yehuda Kurtzer

is president of the Shalom Hartman Institute.

From Yehuda Kurtzer

Ideas

Israel and those who love it are stuck in a hopeless present. Can we ever get back to the future?

By Yehuda Kurtzer May 5, 2025

Ideas

Why Trump’s attack on democracy is as deep a Jewish concern as antisemitism or Israel

By Yehuda Kurtzer March 3, 2025

Ideas

The Hamas attack wasn’t the Holocaust. But it must be understood in terms of Jewish trauma.

By Yehuda Kurtzer October 13, 2023

Ideas

Beyond the ‘Day of Hate’: The best strategy to keep American Jews safe over the long term

By Yehuda Kurtzer February 24, 2023

Ideas

Ukraine, Russia and the unbearable lightness of ‘never again’

By Yehuda Kurtzer March 14, 2022

Ideas

An American Muslim leader said Zionist Jews can’t be trusted allies. Jews and Muslims who work together know better.

By Yehuda Kurtzer December 22, 2021

Ideas

A House bill on Israel is flawed, but our Jewish civil war is worse

By Yehuda Kurtzer April 21, 2021

New York

Jamaal Bowman Wants to Be the Bridge Between His Jewish and Black Constituents

By Yehuda Kurtzer December 24, 2020

Ideas

Partisan actors are using Israel to divide Black and Jewish voters. Let’s not let that happen in Georgia.

By Yehuda Kurtzer November 16, 2020

Ideas

Pluralism is a Jewish value. But pretending all ideas are equal destroys democracy.

By Yehuda Kurtzer June 5, 2020

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