HeyJaredStage Left
Takes on politics, policy, and culture from a lifelong Democrat who's politically homeless, Jewish, and serious about fighting antisemitism wherever it shows up.
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9/11, Twenty-Five Years Later (opens the original)
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When I was a kid, I dreamed of being on Broadway. That dream was meant to be realized on September 11, 2001.I was eight, and that afternoon, I was going to drive into Manhattan with my parents to audition for Tiny Tim in Madison Square Garden’s production of A Christmas Carol. (Purists will note the Garden is not technically Broadway.) Regardless, that afternoon was going to change my life. And it did, just not in ways I ever would have imagined.I didn’t find out what happened until the end of t
A Little Bit Lonelier, A Little Less Alone (opens the original)
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Jew hatred didn’t appear out of nowhere after October 7. It was always there, dormant in some, half-formed in others, waiting for someone with enough authority to say it was allowed. What changed over the past two years isn’t that Jew hatred was invented. It’s that a series of institutions gave permission, one after another, and a lot of ordinary people took them up on it.Since October 7, I have had to accept something I didn’t want to accept: many people I stood beside for years no longer stand
On the US Semiquincentennial (opens the original)
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Happy Independence Day.In fifth grade, back in 2003, I decided I wanted to be president. Not a baseball player, not an astronaut, not a movie star. President of the United States. I wrote hundreds of letters, maybe thousands, to political figures around the world, letting an eleven-year-old’s plans be known: by 2028 I’d be 35, constitutionally eligible, and running to become the first Jewish president of the United States.Stage Left is a reader-supported publication. To receive new
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