is known for its award-winning journalism, first-rate cultural and literary criticism and signature “Big Questions”—all from an independent Jewish perspective. Founded by Leonard Fein and Elie Wiesel in 1975, it has been led by Nadine...
Since October 7, dramatic protests have targeted Israeli or Israeli-linked restaurants, forcing some to shut their doors and complicating life for owners and staff. Who’s behind the boycotts, and what do activists hope to accomplish? On...
From the start, Zionism served as a receptacle for complex historical forces and ideas. Today, the word has been rendered almost meaningless, serving to keep alive the question of Israel’s right to exist. am editor-in-chief of a magazine with...
The Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota has led many observers to wonder if one of history’s darkest chapters could be repeating itself. The 11 a.m. Sunday service at the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed...
Should the Supreme Court permit public funding for Jewish charter schools? Yes. The Supreme Court has not ruled specifically on religious charter schools, but it has ruled on plenty of other cases concerning government money going toward...
What is the most effective counterargument to the claim that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza? A group of prominent center-right intellectuals—among them journalist and author Yossi Klein Halevi, Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg and...
On the 16th of November, 1776, the American brig Andrew Doria sailed into the bustling harbor of the small Caribbean island of St. Eustatius. The ship, which had set out from Gloucester, NJ, outside Philadelphia, was flying the Grand Union...