Rabbi Raphael Shore is a filmmaker and the founder of OpenDor Media and the Clarion Project, and the creator of eighteen documentary films on antisemitism, radical Islam, and Jewish identity. He is the author of Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Jew: Learning to Love the Lessons of Jew-Hatred, and is currently writing his next book, The Fourth Son: Why a Generation of Jews Doesn’t Know How to Ask — and What Comes Next.
When my twin brother became religious, I flew to Jerusalem, armed with philosophical arguments, to bring him back home. My mission succeeded, just not the way I planned.
Amalek's weapon was doubt. Three thousand years later, pundits like Tucker Carlson are running the same play, delegitimizing Israel and the Jews one question at a time.
Mamdani’s election signals a turning point for American Jews, pushing us to confront rising hostility, rethink old assumptions, and decide what kind of future we’re building for ourselves and our children.
As Jewish as a Ham Sandwich
