Monthly Essays

On Yom Kippur, we ask how to live a meaningful life. A poem by Robert Frost offers a striking answer.

The history of German Jews can be traced through their relationship with the country's meat-centric cuisine.

Europe's push for Palestine is a warped, secularized, and self-indulgent case of messianism.

A judicial victory against the Palestinian Authority signals a return to moral wisdom in American government.

The Jewish state is a vital embodiment of Jewish self-determination and self-defense, but it is also a reflection of the fact that the Jewish story is anything but normal.

The Pennsylvania senator’s steadfast support for Israel drives his critics crazy—and channels another fascinating figure from American history.

Why would a country that has rightly welcomed patriotic immigrants in the past ladle out visas to those who hate it?

Rabbi Soloveichik reviews the journalist Douglas Murray’s new book, “On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization.”

Is anti-Semitism a human evil, or just a temporary and unfortunate illness?

How can we be supportive of one and not the other?

A new book explains how pork became the forbidden food par excellence.

Various aspects of Jewish existence at present seem less like the biblical description of what once was, and more like the biblical prediction of what will be.