Monthly Essays

One-hundred years of betrayal, beginning with directives from Stalin.

Understanding and defeating the assault on Jewish moral self-confidence.

The author of the great Jewish language column examines his alter ego.

Israel contra mundum.

The post-October 7 explosion of hostility challenges decades of Jewish communal strategy.

October 7 was not Palestine’s independence day, but the final nail in the two-state solution’s coffin. Is confederation with Jordan all that remains?

With anti-Semitism on the rise and the humanities in decline, how can young Jews pick the right university?

Today’s Islamism promises authenticity but is postmodern in form, postcolonial in posture, and pretends to retrieve the sacred through the techniques of the profane.