Editor's Pick ·
The Attack on Jews Is an Assault on America and on the West
It’s time for a Jewish exodus from institutions that don’t welcome them.
Eric Cohen
Eric Cohen is CEO of Tikvah and the publisher of Mosaic. He is also one of the founders of Tikvah's new Lobel Center for Jewish Classical Education.
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Monthly Essay ·
The Exodus Project: A Jewish Answer to the University Crisis
By Eric CohenAmerican Jews feel betrayed by the very institutions they helped build. It’s time for young Jews to go to colleges and universities that welcome and embrace them.
Observation ·
Podcast: Eric Cohen on the Questions Graduating Jews and Their Parents Must Confront
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Eric CohenCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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How Jewish Democracy Endures
Reflections on Israel’s political crisis.
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Why the West’s Great Ideas Deserve to Be Rediscovered and Revered
And what the Jews have to add to them.
Monthly Essay ·
The Spirit of Jewish Classical Education
By Eric Cohen, Mitchell RocklinJewish teachings have shaped Western civilization from the beginning. How can Jews build schools that encourage the rising generation to take this responsibility seriously?
Observation ·
Why So Many of the Greatest Leaders in Jewish History Began Life as Jewish Outsiders
By Eric CohenCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
What Will Come of Jewish Education When Educators Have Ceded Their Authority?
By Eric CohenI ’m grateful to my three respondents for expanding the American civic scope ( Ian Lindquist , Jason Bedrick ) and elevating the Jewish sights (Rabbi David Fohrman ) of my original essay . Their re...
Monthly Essay ·
The Jewish Schools of the Future
By Eric CohenAfter the Great Disruption, a new renaissance can emerge, marrying Jewish classical education and novel technology, and confronting the cultural crisis with Jewish exceptionalism.
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Some Jewish Wisdom for the American Soul Beset by Plague
Tending to our particular commitments.
Observation ·
A Tribute to Mosaic’s Founding Editor
By Eric Cohen, Ruth R. Wisse, Martin Kramer, Hillel Halkin, Meir SoloveichikCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Bioethics in Times of War and Plague
Laugh, marry, light Sabbath candles—and look to C.S. Lewis for guidance.
Response ·
The Consequences of a World without Constraints
By Eric CohenThoughtful readers and critics are the greatest gift to any writer, and so I am grateful to George Weigel, Wilfred McClay, and David Novak for reading my essay on the meaning of Jerusalem with their...
Monthly Essay ·
The Message from Jerusalem
By Eric CohenAmerican society faces a deep crisis of meaning to which the city, and the idea, of Jerusalem has an answer. It is needed by Jews, and as much or more by Christians.
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In the Face of a Multitude of Threats, Jews Have a Responsibility to Transmit Jewish Civilization to Future Generations
This, the Jews can control.
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What the Latest Critique of Liberalism Fails to See
America is a story of freedom, not simply an abstraction.
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Jerusalem: The Eternal City of Jewish Longing
The resurrection of Jerusalem, after centuries of wandering and the near-death experience of the Holocaust, eludes simple rational explanation.
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The Greatest Gift Jews Can Offer the World
A manifesto for Jewish conservatism.
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Three Exemplars of Jewish Excellence at the Age of Twenty-Nine
Ben-Gurion, Strauss, and Soloveitchik.
Observation ·
The Jewish Tradition Unfolds in Fire. Here’s How, and Why
By Eric Cohen, Mitchell RocklinCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
The Work of a Generation
By Eric CohenI am grateful to Yuval Levin, Yoram Hazony, Yedidia Stern, and Meir Soloveichik for their thoughtful, serious, and penetrating comments on “The Spirit of Jewish Conservatism.” All four are important t...
Monthly Essay ·
The Spirit of Jewish Conservatism
By Eric CohenBoth in America and in Israel, the liberal faith of too many Jews has imperiled the Jewish future. Needed is a serious, thoughtful, and authentically Jewish alternative.
