Daniella Greenbaum Davis

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Daniella Greenbaum Davis

Passover is always emotional. This year especially so. (washingtonpost.com) Passover is always emotional. This year especially so. By Daniella Greenbaum Davis 2025041011000600 In the coming days, Jewish families around the world will gather at dining room tables. We'll stack plates with parsley and horseradish, pour wine into polished kiddush cups and break matzoh in two.

1 month ago | thedailybeast.com | Daniella Greenbaum Davis |Michael Black |Liam Archacki |Sean Craig

It is exactly when a political party or movement wins power that dormant—and definitional—fights begin to break out. It’s easy to find common cause when you have a common enemy, but once in power, the question becomes not what a party is against, but what it is for. That question is now beginning to tear the MAGA movement apart. The answer, according to a troubling and increasingly ascendant voice on the right, is “noticing,” “exposing,” and fighting the Jews.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Daniella Greenbaum Davis

It is exactly when a political party or movement wins power that dormant—and definitional—fights begin to break out. It’s easy to find common cause when you have a common enemy, but once in power, the question becomes not what a party is against, but what it is for. That question is now beginning to tear the MAGA movement apart. The answer, according to a troubling and increasingly ascendant voice on the right, is “noticing,” “exposing,” and fighting the Jews.

Dec 22, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Daniella Greenbaum Davis

Hanukkah is familiarly known as a celebration of miracles: a tiny jar of oil that burned for eight days, the triumph of an oppressed people against a great imperial power. But there is more to the Hanukkah story, and the lessons within are urgently relevant in this post-Oct. 7 era. In Judea more than two millennia ago, the Seleucid Greeks under Antiochus III had, bit by bit, forbidden key parts of Jewish practice, Shabbat observance and circumcision among them.

Sep 5, 2024 | newsweek.com | Daniella Greenbaum Davis

There is an alarming phenomenon playing out on the online right, perpetuated by some of its most influential and popular voices: the embrace of anti-American, anti-Western, and antisemitic "brave truth telling." Figures like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson have gleefully championed the idea that everything you were taught in school is a lie, and that the perennially evil "they" are keeping the real information from you.