The Nexus Newsletter
Every week, the Nexus Project equips you to understand and confront antisemitism in all its forms. Our newsletter unpacks the headlines, reveals the patterns shaping our democracy, and highlights real ways forward. And on alternating weeks, the Nexus Watchdog calls out true antisemitism… and pushes back against those who exploit it for politics.
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September 29, 2026
This week, two major releases made clear that fighting antisemitism and protecting democracy go hand in hand.
September 25, 2026
Yom Kippur asks for an honest accounting. This year, many Jews made theirs inside synagogues guarded by police, and that fact belongs in the accounting too.
September 18, 2026
Rabbi Sharon Brous told her congregation on Rosh Hashanah that she no longer trusts the tools most Jewish organizations use to track antisemitism. She is not alone.
August 27, 2026
Sixty-three years ago, Rabbi Joachim Prinz stood at the Lincoln Memorial minutes before Dr. King and warned America against becoming a nation of onlookers.
August 27, 2026
The word "antisemitism" was everywhere this week. A movie studio aimed it at a critic of its merger.
August 21, 2026
Some of what we cover this week is antisemitism. Some of it is the word being used for something else.
August 14, 2026
Antisemitism is a tangible reality, not just theory or online debates. This week showed how few people with a platform treat it that way.
August 7, 2026
An AI-generated image of a Jewish candidate with devil horns is still the same image antisemites have drawn for centuries. A conspiracy theory about Israel engineering a migrant crisis is just another form of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.
July 31, 2026
Everything this week comes back to a single question: what actually keeps Jews safe? Not statements, not confrontation, not investigations announced in the name of Jewish safety.
July 23, 2026
This week, New York's mayor called for the arrest of a foreign head of state over the war in Gaza. Meanwhile, a leader of one of the country's most prominent young Republican clubs was photographed making what appears to be a Nazi salute.
July 17, 2026
For years, the extremists were supposed to be somewhere else: anonymous accounts, fringe forums, men marching with torches in someone else's city. This week showed how far inside they've come, and how little resistance they're meeting at the door.
July 10, 2026
Election season is turning Israel and AIPAC into central campaign issues, and the rhetoric around them is testing everyone's ability to hold two ideas at once. Criticism of AIPAC's spending is legitimate politics.
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