Todd L. Pittinsky

Chanukah is often described as a festival of light, warmth, and resilience. That description is not wrong—but it is incomplete. And when Jews are targeted for celebrating openly, dangerously so....

"Elections end, but certain images remain. During the New York City Mayoral race, one aspect of the stayed with me: rabbis campaigning for Mamdani," writes columnist Todd Pittinsky.

For decades, universities have elevated intellectual traditions that glorify political violence while sidelining those that show alternatives. The texts we assign—and crucially, those we ignored—shaped the moral frameworks students carried...