The Haredi leadership: Crime and its punishment
1/23/2022
The ultra-Orthodox self-segregate from Israeli society, but the Walder affair is revealing major cracks in the ‘wall of holiness.’ A day of reckoning is coming
High Noon: The Rabbi versus the Colonel
1/17/2022
Kahana has a law to promote Israel’s law of conversion. The short recap of what the new law intends to do: eliminate the monopoly of the rabbinate over conversions and…
To Repair the Whole, We Must Understand its Parts
1/17/2022
On January 16, Novak Djokovic, the top-seed men’s Tennis player in the world, was deported from Australia after a legal saga that ultimately resulted in the cancelation of his visa…
Walter Mondale: A Pragmatist With a Lesson for Progressives
12/28/2021
Mondale movingly evoked the 1938 Evian Conference, where the world refused to liberalize immigration quotas for Jewish refugees, saying the “world will not forget us if we fail” in saving…
AIPAC’s Bet
12/28/2021
A few days ago, the Israel lobby in the United States, AIPAC, announced that it would no longer confine itself to its usual political activity in Washington, but would support…
Local private rabbinic courts undermine the reason they should exist
12/27/2021
A private court that forced is on litigants by the ultra-Orthodox community that sponsors it can’t properly serve those who would otherwise seek its rulings
Next PA head will do more for Palestinians than Abbas ever did
12/27/2021
Without an Israeli peace initiative aimed at dividing the land into two states, we are abandoning Israel’s future to a Palestinian decision.
Opinion Articles
Political Extremism and the Jews
12/27/2021
There is a natural tendency, when discussing political extremism and polarization, to assume that the extreme Right and the extreme Left are mirror images of one another. In so doing,…
Farewell event in honor of Mike Herzog, Israel’s new Ambassador to the United States
9/12/2021
Dr. Henry Kissinger in conversation with Amb. Dennis Ross
1/11/2021
Virtual Tisha b’Av Study Session on National and Personal Loneliness
7/23/2020
Leah and Menachem Gottesman: Not At Risk
1/20/2022
Julian E. Zelizer: Abraham Joshua Heschel
1/13/2022
Hal Taussig and Brandon Scott: After Jesus Before Christianity
12/27/2021