Woke In Content, Jewish In Form: On The Failings Of Jewish Education In America

The following is a chapter excerpt from the new book Betrayal: The Failure of American Jewish Leadership, compiled and edited by Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser (May 2023), from Bombardier Books, an imprint of Post Hill Press.

“We know the Zionist perspective,” a chorus of Jewish students at elite Jewish day schools across the nation continuously assure me. “We want to hear the other side. We want to know the Palestinian side.” Indeed, the tagline of IfNotNow, one of the most virulent anti-Zionist Jewish youth groups, is, “You never told me.”