Israel’s Haredim Are Abandoning Transactional Politics, and Identifying More Deeply with the State
What’s hidden behind politicians’ angry statements.
June 25, 2021
How a Soviet Jewish Historian Survived Purges and Repression—and Discovered Jewish Cossacks
The complicated legacy of Saul Borovoi.
Born in Odessa in 1903, Saul Borovoi lived in the Soviet Union from its founding in 1917 until his death, two years before its collapse, in 1989. While the Communist regime strictly circumscribed any sort of explicitly Jewish activity, Borovoi managed to devote much of his life to Jewish historical scholarship. Brian Horowitz tells his story:
June 25, 2021
City University of New York Faculty Can Fight Back against Their Union’s Anti-Israel Propagandizing
Thanks to a recent Supreme Court decision.
Why Iranians Are Embracing Christianity
A rejection of theocratic totalitarianism?
What a Talking Donkey Teaches about the Limits of Reason Alone
Balaam’s ass, and Buridan’s.
How a Soviet Jewish Historian Survived Purges and Repression—and Discovered Jewish Cossacks
The complicated legacy of Saul Borovoi.