Despite What the U.S. Foreign-Policy Establishment Claims, Israel Isn’t the Source of the World’s Problems—or Even the Middle East’s
The absence of a Palestinian state ranks low on the list of the world’s tragedies.
May 28, 2019
Can America’s Disappearing Non-Orthodox Synagogues Be Saved?
A religious problem, not a demographic one.
A few days ago, Jeffrey Salkin learned that a synagogue he frequented as a teenager had been destroyed—not by anti-Semites or terrorists but by a professional wrecking crew. The synagogue in question, in the Long Island town of East Meadow, shuttered its doors to merge with Temple B’nai Torah in neighboring Wantagh, itself formed by the union of two synagogues that had once thrived independently. Reflecting on synagogue closures throughout the U.S., Salkin notes that they cannot be chalked up to demographic shifts alone:
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The Islamic Republic Might Be Close to the Breaking Point, but It’s Not There Yet
Even Khomeinist madness has its limits.
Moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem Has Produced Lasting Gains
One year later, the results are in.
What the Holiday of Shavuot Has That the Finale of “Game of Thrones” Lacks
The writers failed to sympathize with their own characters’ commitment to clan and tradition.
Can America’s Disappearing Non-Orthodox Synagogues Be Saved?
A religious problem, not a demographic one.