Naya Lekht
Naya Lekht is a scholar on contemporary anti-Semitism and works with the Jewish community to enhance pride and education in the history of the Jewish people and the Arab-Israeli conflict. In addition to her interest in the history of anti-Semitism, Naya likewise writes and teaches about Soviet history. In 2022, Naya was a guest educator for the National Teachers’ Seminar at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, where she taught a cohort of teachers on the topic of Soviet literature and film. She holds a Ph.D. from UCLA, where she wrote about Holocaust literature in the Soviet Union, where she was born.
Hamas, Communism + The End of America
June 2024:The hijacking—nay, the occupation—of campuses by Hamas sympathizers has less to do with a conflict 5,000 miles away and more to do with dethroning America.
Read Article »Marching to the Beat of Each Other’s Drum
April 2024:It is profoundly uninspiring to realize that in the United States we have willfully, yes willfully, jettisoned our individualism in favor of group identity. The notion that marginalized groups must think alike is detrimental to the very groups.
Read Article »In the Image of a Hand
January 2024:My mother told me that the Jewish people are like a hand because I asked her why she was crying. “You see my hand,” she said. “If I cut one of my fingers, where do you feel the pain?” I must have said, “the entire hand,” because this is when she told me that the Jewish people are like one hand; that if the Jewish people are hurting in Israel, we hurt everywhere.
Read Article »My Name is Judea: The Story of a People + a Girl
January 2024:This is a story about Judea, a girl who faces bullying in school by a group of kids who purposefully call her not by her given name. The more that Judea tries to show to the students that her name is Judea, the more proof she brings, the bullying increases.
Read Article »The Great Occupation Lie
November 2023:The de-colonization narrative in regard to Israel is not only false but dangerous. And just as in the Soviet Union it provided the necessary support for anti-Zionism to become fully operational, it is currently being used to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish people and Israel
Read Article »In the Age of the Influencer
July 2023:Curiosity compelled man to know more and reach outside of oneself.
Conversely, in the age of the influencer, we are retreating further and further into the self. The worship of the ego paramount in selfies, filtered videos, and numbers of followers is taking us further from the pursuit of truth.
Read Article »The Great Nakba Lie
June 2023:It is educational malpractice to teach a narrative built on omissions and present it as an impermeable truth.
Read Article »The Renaissance of Truth, Beauty + Virtue
May 2023:The hope of this issue of White Rose Magazine is to not only describe the many problems extant within K–12 and higher education, but to inspire a renaissance within the Humanities.
Read Article »Getting Authentic about ‘Authentic Education’
May 2023:Rossi, once a beloved high school math and philosophy teacher, was “canceled” from an elite private school in Manhattan for blowing the whistle on his school’s indoctrination tactics.
Read Article »What if the Holocaust Was Not About ‘Hate’?
May 2023:It is neither historically nor morally correct to relegate the extermination of the Jewish people to the status of just another story of “hate.”
Read Article »The Sovietization of U.S. Schools
January 2023:This, then, is the very heart of the matter: that our schools have become institutions where our children are inculcated in a neo-Marxist driven framework of ethics.
Read Article »Woke in Content, Jewish in Form:
On the Failings of Jewish Education in America
May 2022:How did we get here? How do our brightest and most dedicated Jewish students surrender the land, the trust in their people, and history?
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