Untangling Antisemitism with Michelle Goldberg


The Kumah Festival


New York Times columnist and New Shul member Michelle Goldberg has emerged as a leading expert on the current landscape of antisemitism. She has written extensively about the manipulation of antisemitism, its relationship with Zionism and anti Zionism and which forms Jewish scapegoating is taking these days. This year at the Kumah Festival Michelle joins us for a conversation to unpack how anti Jewish hatred has shifted in the US over the last few years, what it looks like today on the right and the left and where it seems to be heading. Join us for an evening of music, prayer and intellectual inquiry.
— Rabbi Misha Shulman

About

Michelle Goldberg

Michelle Goldberg has been an opinion columnist at the New York Times since 2017. She was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for reporting on issues of workplace sexual harassment, and has also won two Front Page Awards from the Newswomen’s Club of New York for opinion/criticism and the Hillman Prize for opinion and analysis. 

Her first book, “Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism,” about religious authoritarianism in American politics, was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. After that, she traveled to countries including India, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, and Poland to write “The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World,” a book about global battles over gender and reproductive rights, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Award and the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize. Then, in a detour from politics, she wrote “The Goddess Pose,” a book about wellness culture and the long Western fascination with Eastern spirituality as refracted through the story of the peripatetic Russian yoga evangelist Indra Devi. 

Goldberg is an on-air contributor at MSNOW, and her work has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation and many others. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children. 

NYT Opinion Columnist