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 · 21 min read
The New Ideological Gatekeepers of American Judaism Having been in this fight for nearly two years now, I’ve learned a thing or two about how to get around them. David Bernstein 4 Feb 2023 · 5 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 · 7 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 · 11 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
Understanding the Miracle of Hanukkah Through the Ancient World's Prism of Horrors Judah’s men were not gentle souls. Jonathan Kay 4 Dec 2018 · 5 min read
