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Israelis Are Happy Because of a Shared Sense of National Purpose
A lesson in good tribalism.
Gil Troy
Gil Troy is distinguished scholar of North American history at McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of nine books on the American presidency and three books on Zionism, including, most recently, The Zionist Ideas.
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A Requiem for a Day School
A storied Conservative institution goes Orthodox.
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Jewish Studies Faculty Go Soft on Opposing Boycotts of Israel
A thumbs-up for shunning Israeli scholars.
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How American Anti-Racists Came to Seek Israel’s Destruction
Time and again, the Palestinian cause gets a free pass other movements somehow don’t merit.
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Remembering David Ellenson’s Reform Zionist Theology
“In those moments my spirit, moved me instinctively to thank God for the sanctification of life the Jewish state embodies.”
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Israel Risks Learning All the Wrong Lessons from American Politics, and None of the Right Ones
Democracy is doing just fine in the Jewish state.
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Considering Zionism’s Successes 75 Years after the Founding of the Jewish State
And “old-new land” in the fullest sense.
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How the Munich Olympics Proved the Hollowness of Post-World War II Internationalism
The UN became a dictators’ debating club, sports became politicized, and anti-Semitism got a pass in both.
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Theodor Herzl Dreamed Not Just of Jewish Safety, but of Jewish Flourishing
“The world will be freed by our freedom, and made great by our greatness.”
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The Secular Zionist Who Insisted on Mourning the Destruction of the Temples—Even in the Land of Israel
Berl Katznelson’s defense of the Jewish calendar.
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The Arab-Israeli Conflict May Have Already Ended
Don’t let bombs upstage breakthroughs.
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What Israel’s Memorial Day Can Teach Americans
Lessons on forging a shared culture.
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American Jews Should Be Worried about Rising Anti-Semitism—but Shouldn’t Lose Faith in the American Exception
The worst episodes of U.S. anti-Semitism have been followed by philo-Semitic backlash.
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How a Year in Israel Could Transform Diaspora Jewry
The best preparation for college?
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Left-Wing Critics of Israel Are Using the Language of David Duke and the Hitler Youth
The ugly term “Jewish supremacy.”
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Like Many Who Came Before Them, Today’s Jewish Anti-Zionists Want to Rid Judaism of Its Particularity
The un-Jews and their forebears.
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From Freedom from Egyptian Slavery to Freedom from Soviet Tyranny—and Freedom from Anti-Semitism
Seder in the gulag.
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Podcast: Gil and Tevi Troy’s Non-Negotiable Judaisms
By Gil Troy, Tevi Troy, Tikvah Podcast at MosaicCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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How Conservative Judaism Got Everything Right but Religion
Consecrated by history, but not sanctified by God.
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Some Lessons about Cancel Culture from a Former Refusenik
So long as you engage in doublethink, you can’t be truly free.
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Jewish Day Schools Accept the 1619 Project to Their Own Detriment
Ideological suicide.
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The End of the New Jew
By Natan Sharansky, Gil TroyThe final line—“Israel can no longer be understood without its Russian component, and Israel’s ‘Russians’ can only be understood as a type of Israeli”—of Matti Friedman’s fascinating essay about Israe...
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Podcast: Gil Troy on His New Book with Natan Sharansky
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Gil TroyCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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How the Jewish Experience Can Help America Defend Itself against the War on History
Jews shouldn’t join the mob by renaming St. Louis or “cancelling” Dostoevsky.
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The Weakest Link
By Natan Sharansky, Gil TroyWe appreciate the generous, thoughtful, and challenging responses to our essay , “Can American and Israeli Jews Stay Together as One People?” To begin with, we note that all four respondents—Allan Ar...
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Can American and Israeli Jews Stay Together as One People?
By Natan Sharansky, Gil TroyLong-festering strains between the world’s two largest communities jeopardize the prospects of a shared Jewish future. Here’s a way forward.
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How Zionism Can Sustain and Revitalize American Jewry
Nationalism as a force for good.
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Chaim Weizmann Combined Gifted Statesmanship with a Passionate Commitment to Jewish Particularism
Formidable even when sidelined.
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No, There Isn’t a Split between Birthright and the Reform Movement
And the organization hasn’t been subjected to an Orthodox coup.
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Tzipi Hotovely Shouldn’t Have to Apologize for Speaking about Differences between Israeli and American Jews
Israeli and American Jews have never had more constructive grassroots contact.