Max Buchdahl

Welcomed, Then Attacked by Yitzhar

By Max Buchdahl November 5, 2019

That was all the time it took to make it clear that there is no “both sides” when it comes to the brutalizers of Yitzhar and the nearby Palestinian villagers who are brutalized by them.

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The #1 Failure of Holocaust Education Isn’t Discussed

By Max Buchdahl May 1, 2018

According to a survey recently reported in the New York Times, 41 percent of millennials wrongly believe two million or fewer Jews died in the Holocaust and that 66 percent of millennials could not say what Auschwitz was. American Jews understandably reacted with extreme concern, shocked that so many of their fellow Americans – particularly…

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Fighting BDS Shouldn’t Be Our First Concern

By Max Buchdahl August 18, 2017

Originally published in The Jewish Exponent. For the past year and a half, I have served as president of the student board of Hillel at Temple University. Over the course of my time on board, I’ve seen students plan weekly Shabbat dinners, various types of holiday programming (including the ever-popular Chocolate Seder) and our first-ever…

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