News | Articles By Me

I Made The Jerusalem Post!!! - Joshua Namm's Substack

Or rather, the platform I co-founded made it! And I couldn't be more proud!!!

We made the Jerusalem Post! I wrote a mini-article about it.

Politics | Opinion

It’s time for American Jews to toughen up

We must teach our children to defend themselves by themselves.

Politics | Biden Administration/Congress

Israeli banks freeze accounts after US sanctions over ‘settler violence’

Under President Joe Biden's executive order, U.S. individuals and companies are barred from providing any assets or services to Yinon Levi, David Chisdai, Einan Tanjil and Shalom Zicherman.

Biden is a disgusting individual. None of these people have been convicted of any crimes. In each case, they were defending themselves and their families against Arab attacks. Biden is doing this to 1. Draw a false moral equivalence between the terrorist, antisemitic, death-cult of the Palestinians, and the Jews, because he will say or do anything to appease the Jew hating left in America and 2. Add to the worldwide left’s narrative that when Jews are attacked, and fight back, we need to be punished.

“Never again” MEANS never again, and if the world can’t handle it: it’s too freakin’ bad

Miscellaneous | Jewish Life

The Best Response to Antisemitism

An open letter to an American Jewish college student.

Miscellaneous | Jewish Life

If Your Synagogue Is A Temple To Leftism, It’s Time To Go

<p>College campuses across the country were erupting in Jew-hating outbursts, and parents were rightly worried about their Jewish college-aged kids caught up in the frenzy of hate. On Facebook, a group called Mothers Against College Antisemitism (M.A.C.A.

I wish that I had written this. I lived it growing up, which is why for my entire adult life, I will only attend Orthodox synagogues. If you want actual Judaism: go to a traditional synagogue. If you want leftist politics, allegiance to the always shifting “values” of an increasingly radicalized democrat party (including it’s constant, enthusiastic denigration of Israel and the ancient Jewish connection to it), and an unwillingness/lack of courage to be proudly and STRONGLY Jewish: go to a reform/conservative “temple.” One is Jewish. The other is Jew-ish.

Karol Markiwicz does an EXCELLENT job of explaining why.

Miscellaneous | Jewish Life

Chanukah: Independence & Defiance, Not Tolerance

Far from a “minor” holiday, Chanukah is more crucial than ever.

News | Articles By Me

Joshua Namm: It’s Not That Complicated, Israel Must Destroy The Evil

It's Not That Complicated

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Pride And Anxiety: 23 American Jews on choosing to wear their Jewishness

American Jews talk about wearing their Jewishness, as a response to rising anti-Semitism.

I normally wouldn’t post something form the Forward. Honestly, I believe that they are usually more a part of the problem than the solution. This article really resonated with me though. I asked my parents for my first “Chai” when I was about 12. Then I asked for a Magen David. The reason was that the chain on the Chai was too long and people couldn’t see it. Older people warned me, a kid, not to wear it because they came from the generation that was taught that your Jewishness was “private.” Except my dad, a WWII vet, a guy who grew up dirt poor during the depression, in Brooklyn- ALWAYS sore his Chai, every day of his life, and never cared who saw it. My family was also very close to two Survivors who lost everything in the Shoah. They had numbers tattooed on their arms. They had no choice in whether they had to “wear” their Jewishness.

That was almost 40 years ago. A few years ago, I bought a hipper looking Magen David. It mostly sat in a drawer. Lately I’ve been wearing it, very visibly, more. A lot more. I have NEVER shied away from expressing my Jewishness in many ways over the years. That includes walking through the streets of Paris with a kippah on after I was warned not to. If people don’t like it: TOO BAD. I’ve been called a “heeb,” a “kike,” an “f’ing Jew,” and more and have been in several “unpleasant” situations. I don’t care. Am Yisrael Chai baby. Being scared and appeasing them NEVER has worked, won’t work now, and will never work. Be Jewish, be proud, never ever be afraid, be brave, trust in Hashem, and never, ever, no matter what, hide who we are.