Featuring Elite Experts Combating Antisemitism

Title: “Why The Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism” Date: April 24, 2014 Speaker: Rabbi Joseph Telushkin Affiliation: Rabbi, Author Location: Columbia University, as part of the ISGAP seminar series “Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective” Description: Rabbi Joseph Telushkin maintains that there has been no hatred that has been as universal, as deep, or as long as antisemitism and attempts to offer a theory for the reason behind the phenomenon of antisemitism. Rabbi Telushkin argues that ultimately antisemitism is a response to Jews, Judaism, and Jewish values.