Judaism - Quillette

A Life in the Fray

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.

Jeffrey Herf

10 Jul 2023 · 22 min read

Building a Progressive Tower of Babel

An American Jewish community leader describes how puritanical ideologues are co-opting charitable organizations and activist groups.

David Bernstein

13 Oct 2022 · 14 min read

Israel’s Perilous Moment, Then and Now

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.

Sol Stern

18 May 2022 · 14 min read

Remembering the Jewish Yugoslavia that the Nazis Destroyed

The story of how I came to know one of those survivors, and chronicle her life.

Geoffrey C. Kabat

6 Apr 2022 · 12 min read

How the Christian Bible Became Separated Into ‘Old’ and ’New’

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”

Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter

12 Mar 2022 · 10 min read

‘We Never Looked Back’

Education was divided along confessional lines into Catholic and Protestant school systems; for these purposes, Jews were designated Protestant.

Ruth R. Wisse

27 Nov 2021 · 15 min read

Maternal Lessons in Politics from a Jewish Iraqi-American Ping Pong Champion

Democratic transformation generally comes from the ground up, not from foreigners bearing guns and gifts.

David Bernstein

2 Sep 2021 · 8 min read

Standing up to the Social-Justice Mobs Within the Jewish Community

The white Jewish leaders who attended were told in advance that they were expected to come and listen—to be seen and not heard.

David Bernstein

5 Jul 2021 · 12 min read

Circling Back to My Grandfather’s Judaism, Seventy Years Later

North American Jews needed time to absorb the scope and originality of the horror they had been spared.

Barbara Kay

21 Dec 2020 · 14 min read

Antiracism, Anti-Semitism, and the False Problem of Jewish Success

There’s no such thing as too many Jews among the “faces of power.”

Daniel Friedman

25 Oct 2020 · 15 min read

The Jewish Dilemma

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.

Joel Kotkin

9 Dec 2019 · 10 min read

PODCAST 54: New York Times Editor Bari Weiss on Her New Book

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