Jonathan Silver is the editor of Mosaic, the host of the Tikvah Podcast, the Warren R. Stern Senior Fellow of Jewish Civilization, and the Chief Programming officer of Tikvah.
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The Jewish world is dynamic and diverse, and prayers, ceremonies, foods, and other traditions often diverge radically between different Jewish groups. In his feature essay this month, Rabbi Meir Sol...
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Why did Israel’s intelligence agencies fail to prepare for the attacks of October 7? Why were warnings ignored? Why didn’t the defensive measures in place work? Could the IDF have responded more quick...
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As university campuses witnessed an eruption of anti-Semitism this year, scholars of Jewish studies were for the most part strangely silent. In his May 2024 feature essay , Mosaic senior editor And...
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In this month’s feature Mosaic essay , the literary scholar Gary Saul Morson argues that the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky presents a conundrum: On the one hand, he was the great writer of...
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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A conversation.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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We must reject a culture that has mistaken liberty for license. The late rabbi can help us learn how.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The Hamas terror attacks of October 7 took place almost 50 years to the day after the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War. As in 1973, the surprise assault will have far-reaching consequences for the Israe...
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Counting the days.
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On September 28, Mosaic hosted a conversation between Aboubakr—the author of September’s feature essay on the role of the Nakba in the Arab imagination—and Ghaith al–Omari, a leading analyst of Pale...
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Grotesque images of abused Israeli hostages and violations of dead Israeli bodies should remind us of the reality of evil and the necessity of countering it.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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When the Bengals and Bills bowed their heads.
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A simple Jerusalem laundryman is tested by a vanished voice from his past and the destruction of his treasured way of life Set in and around Jerusalem’s famous shuk, and featuring three top-notch acto...
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Meir Kahane and Jacob Taubes were prophets of an unsettling vision. To them, human history did not follow a trajectory of incremental progress, where things generally improve over time. Rather, Jewish...
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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A new nuclear deal with Iran seems imminent, which means that it’s time to try to understand how its leaders see themselves and the ends they serve. How does Iran’s history, culture, and religion affe...
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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“Freedom and liberty if not grounded in reverence and faith sooner or later will go badly.”
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If you’ve heard about the case against Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, you’ve probably heard about it spoken of in stridently critical tones: as an expression of McCarthyite excess, as an expression of Am...
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Last week, in response to Rich Goldberg’s September Mosaic essay on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, we convened a discussion on the subject with him, the U.S. senator from Nebraska Ben Sasse, and our...
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
