Monthly Essays

A conversation with one of the highest-ranking observant Jews in the federal judiciary.

Iran has assumed it can keep its assets safe by hiding them deep underground. The IDF's daring operation in Masyaf may have shattered that assumption.

What we learn from the Eli Cohen files.

What a great historian saw in Jewish history.

Only one was a mark of prestige for ancient rabbis.

Can the Yemeni terrorist group be stopped?

The Bitburg controversy, 40 years on.

Bringing clarity to the confusion.

At the start of this war, the jihadist group had governing authority, territorial control, a functioning bureaucracy, and a trained army.

A priest and advocate for Middle Eastern Christians discusses the late pontiff's legacy.

The real network of criminals, secret police, and dissident officers that transformed the Ottoman empire.

Listen to one episode of the master teacher's course on the meaning of the second book of the Torah.

Exodus's Sea of Reeds wasn't the Red Sea. But was it the Gulf of Suez? Lake Balah? Somewhere else?

One Little Goat tells a story about the Haggadah and the meaning of Jewish memory.

Donald Trump’s Team is divided over Middle East policy. That’s nothing new.

War, social divisions, and social resilience.

Two distinct approaches to sin and absolution.

There’s no more point in arguing with the UN about Israel than there is in arguing about whether Jews really kill Christians for their blood.