A collection of 15 posts
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Harry Saul Markham about the increasingly acute threat of Islamism in the UK and the normalisation of virulent antisemitism among British Muslims.
A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost.
Having been in this fight for nearly two years now, I’ve learned a thing or two about how to get around them.
An American Jewish community leader describes how puritanical ideologues are co-opting charitable organizations and activist groups.
Herf tells the complicated and often surprising story of the internal political struggles in Western capitals, as well as in the halls of the United Nations, that erupted at the end of the Second World War.
The story of how I came to know one of those survivors, and chronicle her life.
There is no firmly established technical term for the Bible in Judaism. The Hebrew scriptures may simply be referred to as “the Bible,” and the term “Jewish Bible” is sometimes used to distinguish it from the Christian Bible. In Hebrew, terms such as miqra (“scripture”) or kitve haqqodesh (“sacred texts”
Education was divided along confessional lines into Catholic and Protestant school systems; for these purposes, Jews were designated Protestant.
Democratic transformation generally comes from the ground up, not from foreigners bearing guns and gifts.
The white Jewish leaders who attended were told in advance that they were expected to come and listen—to be seen and not heard.
North American Jews needed time to absorb the scope and originality of the horror they had been spared.
There’s no such thing as too many Jews among the “faces of power.”
The rise of global antisemitism seems certain to accelerate the demographic decline of Jews in most of the world, and their eventual concentration in Israel.
New York Times editor and opinion writer Bari Weiss talks to Jonathan Kay about How to Fight Anti-Semitism, her new book on the rise in anti-Semitism in the U.S. on the Left and the Right, and what we can do to combat it. Featured image, Bari Weiss on Real
Judah’s men were not gentle souls.