Israel’s Cease-Fire in Lebanon Is about to Be Tested
The IDF is handing over a few villages to the Lebanese army.
Latest Editors’ Picks
Tuesday, July 21
The Church of England Betrays Its Zionist Past
But the Anglicans of the “global south” won’t go along.
Arresting an Israeli Prime Minister Doesn’t Uphold International Law
Despite what New York City’s mayor thinks.
The Book of Job through Rabbinic Eyes
How it became a vehicle for discussing divine providence.
Remains from the Destruction of Jerusalem That Survived 2,500 Years
An early attempt at memorialization?
Past Editors’ Picks
Monday, July 20
How America Can Beat Iran
Tehran must understand that the U.S. has not come close to exhausting its power.
J.D. Vance’s Doomed Quest to Build a Bridge between the Anti-Semites and the Republican Mainstream
He will only hand the radicals a victory.
The Myth of Israel’s Isolation
A cliché that doesn’t match reality.
Franz Rosenzweig, “Brilliant Outlier in the Firmament of Modern Jewish Philosophy”
Who has been proved wrong about the Jews and history.
America’s First Prison Synagogue
And a prison’s first bris.
Friday, July 17
Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain Nuclear Facility Isn’t Impenetrable
Why the site matters.
Lebanon Has a Chance to Push Back against Hizballah, If It Has the Courage
President Aoun talks the talk. Will he walk the walk?
The Case against Daylight Savings
Bad for observant Jews, bad for American families.
Syria’s (Almost) Last Jew
Meet Bakhour Chamntoub.
The Talmud and Its Discontents
The word of God descended into the world not to abolish argument, but to sanctify it.
Thursday, July 16
If Haredim Want Privileges, They Must Take On Greater Responsibility
The tribe of Levi?
The Jews, the Holocaust, and the Great Moral-Accounting Fraud
Enriching the self-appointed spokesmen of the wretched of the earth without helping the wretched themselves.
Why the Yemen Front Is Heating Up
Saudi Arabia wants the other strait to stay open.
Telling the Story of the Declaration of Independence in Yiddish
Jonas Phillips’s lost letter.
The Legacy of the Berlin Talmudic Academy
Jewish law and the wider academic world.
Wednesday, July 15
Rahm Emanuel and Ro Khanna Punch the Israel Card
For Democrats, the Jewish state and the Palestinians have become the most important political props.
It Will Take More Than a Few Bombs to Get Iran to Back Down
A broad view of the ongoing war.
The Church of England Decides That Israel Is Inherently Evil
Back to the 13th century.
Isaac Bashevis Singer on the Importance of Jewish Law
My Father’s Courthouse.
American Jewry Needs a Rabbinic Leadership That Can Move It
Maintaining standards, and bending them, in small-town West Virginia.
Tuesday, July 14
Iraq Cracks Down on Iranian Influence
Thanks to American pressure.
In Playing Both Sides of the U.S-Iran Conflict, Qatar Exposed Its Achilles Heel
The legacy of the late Sheikh Hamad.
To Have More Children, Americans First Need to Have More Friends
A new fertility study’s surprising finding.
The Forgotten Rabbi Who Brought the Torah to English-Speaking Jews
J.H. Hertz and his Humash.
Remembering Lindsey Graham: A Friend of Israel Who Believed in America
And always knew when Shabbat was over.
Monday, July 13
The Cease-Fire in the Persian Gulf Was Bound to Fail
A double misunderstanding.
In Canada, a Human-Rights Museum Suggests Israel Is the Culmination of the World’s Evils
Nakba: Past and Present.
A 1912 French Novella’s Exploration of Anti-Semitic Violence
“Lévy.”
The Hounding of Jewish Writers, and Its Defenders
The PEN Club’s free-speech problem.
A Memoir of a Vanishing Southern Jewish Elite
Returning.