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Ben Lorber

Ben Lorber is co-author of Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism (2024, Melville House Publishing). As Senior Research Analyst at Political Research Associates, a social movement think tank, Lorber studies and publishes on antisemitism and white Christian nationalism. Lorber worked as national campus organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace, supporting justice-driven young Jewish communities across the country.

Essays

The Wrestling Itself is the Point: A Response to Joshua Leifer

The grass seemed greener in Orthodoxy, I’ve realized, because my yearning for authenticity and escape reflected a structural lack embedded in late capitalist dystopia… Today, it seems to me more honest to learn to live with this lack, than to imagine that any faith, flag or folkway can fully fill it.