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Latest Mosaic Content for Public Affairs

  1. Response ·

    The Future of Universities Must Be Built on Firm Values

    By Daniel Diermeier

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    The Future of Universities Must Be Built on Firm Values
  2. Response ·

    How Jewish Studies Became a Tool of Adversarial Culture

    By Dr. Ruth Wisse

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    How Jewish Studies Became a Tool of Adversarial Culture
  3. Response ·

    Universities Need Teachers Who Want to Teach, and Students Willing to Learn

    By Bella Brannon

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Universities Need Teachers Who Want to Teach, and Students Willing to Learn
  4. Response ·

    The Future of Higher Education and the Jews: A Symposium

    By The Editors

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    The Future of Higher Education and the Jews: A Symposium
  5. Monthly Essay ·

    A College Guide for the Perplexed

    By Eric Cohen, Samuel Helyar

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

    A College Guide for the Perplexed
  6. Observation ·

    What to Do When a U.S. President Lays a Wreath at a Cemetery for Nazi War Dead

    By Avi Weiss

    The Bitburg controversy, 40 years on.

    What to Do When a U.S. President Lays a Wreath at a Cemetery for Nazi War Dead
  7. Observation ·

    Diplomacy and Airstrikes Haven’t Stopped the Houthis. What Will?

    By Ari Heistein

    Any agreement the terrorist group will accept is one the West would be better off rejecting.

    Diplomacy and Airstrikes Haven’t Stopped the Houthis. What Will?
  8. Response ·

    How the Next President Can Help Restore Jewish Civil Rights on Campus

    By The Editors

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    How the Next President Can Help Restore Jewish Civil Rights on Campus
  9. Observation ·

    The Onslaught against the Jews Is an Onslaught against the West

    By Melanie Phillips

    How the Palestinian narrative exploited a self-destructive weakness in Western society.

    The Onslaught against the Jews Is an Onslaught against the West
  10. Monthly Essay ·

    How the Incoming Administration Can Restore Jewish Civil Rights

    By Tal Fortgang

    The government can break the wave of anti-Semitism subsuming American college campuses. But it will take political will.

    How the Incoming Administration Can Restore Jewish Civil Rights
  11. Response ·

    Evaluating the American Jewish Response to October 7: With Jack Wertheimer, Armin Rosen, and Andres Spokoiny

    By The Editors

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Evaluating the American Jewish Response to October 7: With Jack Wertheimer, Armin Rosen, and Andres Spokoiny
  12. Response ·

    Watch Andrew Koss and David N. Myers Discuss Whether Jewish Studies Has Turned against the Jews

    By Andrew Koss, Jonathan Silver

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Watch Andrew Koss and David N. Myers Discuss Whether Jewish Studies Has Turned against the Jews
  13. Monthly Essay ·

    The Exodus Project: A Jewish Answer to the University Crisis

    By Eric Cohen

    American Jews feel betrayed by the very institutions they helped build. It’s time for young Jews to go to colleges and universities that welcome and embrace them.

    The Exodus Project: A Jewish Answer to the University Crisis
  14. Monthly Essay ·

    Jewish Studies against the Jews

    By Andrew Koss

    As America's universities catch fire and its Jewish students grow more fearful, the field most likely to have something to say has remained silent—or worse. How did it go wrong?

    Jewish Studies against the Jews
  15. Response ·

    Will Jewish Tradition Adapt to AI?

    By Moshe Koppel

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Will Jewish Tradition Adapt to AI?
  16. Observation ·

    The Genial, Jewish Joseph Lieberman

    By Elliott Abrams

    A practicing Orthodox Jew, the late senator lived his faith; no political triumph ever seemed to dent his graciousness.

    The Genial, Jewish Joseph Lieberman
  17. Response ·

    Jews Aren’t Loud Enough about AI

    By David Zvi Kalman

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Jews Aren’t Loud Enough about AI
  18. Monthly Essay ·

    What Artificial Intelligence Has In Store for Judaism

    By Moshe Koppel

    AI has the potential to change the way Jews study Torah, observe Jewish law, work with rabbis, and teach their children. Will Jews resist those changes or welcome them?

    What Artificial Intelligence Has In Store for Judaism
  19. Observation ·

    The World Is Not Taking the Houthis Seriously Enough

    By Ari Heistein, Jason M. Brodsky

    Of all the actors that have taken the world stage since October 7, the Houthis are surely the most surprising. Where did they come from and what do they want?

    The World Is Not Taking the Houthis Seriously Enough
  20. Observation ·

    Tit for Tat Is a Bad Way of Arguing about Gaza

    By Philologos

    Two or three thoughts on the “dehumanizing” discourse.

    Tit for Tat Is a Bad Way of Arguing about Gaza
  21. Observation ·

    Israel and the CNN Effect

    By Shlomo Brody

    Images of bloodshed in Gaza should upset anyone with a healthy moral sense. But they don't help determine whether the actions that brought these scenes about were ethical.

    Israel and the CNN Effect
  22. Observation ·

    What Kissinger Really Thought

    By Elliott Abrams, Norman Podhoretz, Jonathan Silver

    Interviews with Norman Podhoretz and Elliott Abrams recreate the foreign-policy debates of the cold war, and illuminate Kissinger's attitudes toward Israel and the Jewish people.

    What Kissinger Really Thought
  23. Observation ·

    The Biden Administration’s Anti-Semitism Blindspot

    By Dr. Ruth Wisse

    Will the administration’s new strategy to counter anti-Semitism camouflage its own inaction?

    The Biden Administration’s Anti-Semitism Blindspot
  24. Response ·

    What American Conservatives Can Do about Right-Wing Anti-Semitism

    By Tamara Berens

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    What American Conservatives Can Do about Right-Wing Anti-Semitism
  25. Response ·

    Unchurched Christians and Anti-Semitic Ones

    By Timothy P. Carney

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Unchurched Christians and Anti-Semitic Ones
  26. Response ·

    Anti-Modern Anti-Semitism

    By Tara Isabella Burton

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Anti-Modern Anti-Semitism
  27. Monthly Essay ·

    From Coy to Goy

    By Tamara Berens

    How America’s far right found its anti-Semitic voice and figured out its true identity.

    From Coy to Goy
  28. Observation ·

    The Road to Israel-Saudi Normalization Runs Through Washington

    By Richard Goldberg

    Open ties between the two nations are in everyone's interest, but it will take serious intent and deft maneuvering from America to get there. Is the administration up to it?

    The Road to Israel-Saudi Normalization Runs Through Washington
  29. Response ·

    Who’s Afraid of Ritual Slaughter?

    By Eric Mechoulan

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Who’s Afraid of Ritual Slaughter?
  30. Response ·

    Are Europe’s Restrictions on Jewish and Muslim Ritual Due to Christianity’s Influence or Absence?

    By Matthew Schmitz

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Are Europe’s Restrictions on Jewish and Muslim Ritual Due to Christianity’s Influence or Absence?