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Israel’s Attack on Iran Is Reshaping the Middle East
By Jonathan Silver, Elliott Abrams, Amiad Cohen, Assaf Orion, John SpencerOperation Rising Lion.
Jonathan Silver
Jonathan Silver is the editor of Mosaic, the host of the Tikvah Podcast, the Warren R. Stern Senior Fellow of Jewish Civilization, and the Chief Programming officer of Tikvah.
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Ancient Jerusalem Reborn: The Discovery of the City of David—and the Palestinian Effort to Erase It
By Doron Spielman, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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“Get the Jew”: The Crown Heights Riot Revisited
By Michael Pack, Elliot Kaufman, Jonathan SilverWatch or read our discussion with Elliot Kafuman and Michael Pack about the new documentrary on the 1991 pogrom in Brooklyn, and what it means for American Jewry today.
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Watch or Read Meir Soloveichik and Joseph Dweck Discuss the Worlds and Moods of Ashkenaz and Sepharad
By Joseph Dweck, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Watch and Read Scott Abramson and Haviv Rettig Gur Discuss Israeli Commissions of Inquiry and October 7
By Scott Abramson, Haviv Rettig Gur, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Watch Andrew Koss and David N. Myers Discuss Whether Jewish Studies Has Turned against the Jews
By Andrew Koss, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Watch Gary Saul Morson and Jacob Howland Discuss the Dostoevsky Problem
By Gary Saul Morson, Jacob Howland, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The Best Books of 2023, Part II
By Andrew Koss, Jonathan Silver, Rabbi Meir SoloveichikFeaturing fears, fates, burdens of power, memory wars, Sabbath days, Russian writers and timeless questions, years of upheaval, Japanese Jews, and more.
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What Kissinger Really Thought
By Elliott Abrams, Norman Podhoretz, Jonathan SilverInterviews 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.
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How Israel Got Caught by Surprise in 1973 and 2023
By Michael Doran, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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How the Jewish State Became So Important to the Self-Conception of the Arabs
By Ghaith al-Omari, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The Humiliation of Jews Is the Point
By Jonathan SilverGrotesque images of abused Israeli hostages and violations of dead Israeli bodies should remind us of the reality of evil and the necessity of countering it.
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Watch Mosaic’s Dramatic Reading of “The Dawning of the Day”
By The Editors, Jonathan Silver, Daniel BouskilaCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The Best Books of 2022, Chosen by Mosaic Authors
By Elliott Abrams, Tamara Berens, Andrew Koss, Daniel Polisar, Neil Rogachevsky, Sarah Rindner, Jonathan SilverFeaturing wars, peacemakers, two cultures, pogroms, plays, four ages, wild problems, caves, magic, letters, American conservatives, liberal parents, radical children, and more.
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Who Is Pierre Manent?
By Pierre Manent, Jonathan SilverOne of the world's greatest living political philosophers reflects on his intellectual formation, and how he sees Europe, Israel, and America today.
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The Mythography of Tel Aviv
By Maoz Azaryahu, Jonathan SilverShared myths reveal something elemental about the people who sustain them. A scholar of cultural memory describes the layers of myth that illuminate Israel's quintessentially modern city.
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Watch Yossi Klein Halevi Discuss His Movie “Kaddish”
By Yossi Klein Halevi, Jonathan SilverThe Israeli writer joined us last week to talk about growing up in the aftermath of the Holocaust, and the movie made about him and his father.
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Watch Our Conversation on Meir Kahane, Jacob Taubes, and the American Jewish Frustration with Boredom
By Samuel Goldman, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Daniel Gordis and Asael Abelman on the Personality of the New Jew
By Dr. Daniel Gordis, Asael Abelman, Jonathan Silver, Tikvah Podcast at MosaicTwo top Israeli observers examine the dominant Jewish personalities in Israel today, and how they compare to the ideas of pre-state Zionist writers.
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Michael Doran and Ze’ev Maghen Think about Iran and its Revolutionary Regime
By Michael Doran, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Watch Mosaic’s Dramatic Reading of Isaac Babel’s “Red Cavalry”
By Jonathan Silver, Gary Saul Morson, Natan SharanskyCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The Best Books of 2021, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part I)
By Elliott Abrams, Richard Goldberg, Neil Rogachevsky, Jonathan Silver, Dr. Ruth WisseFive of our writers pick several favorites each, featuring a duke's children, Jewish treasures, zealots and emancipators, revolts, dual allegiances, spies, and more.
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Ethel Rosenberg’s Mythic Innocence
By Harvey Klehr, Jonathan Brent, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Ben Sasse and Rich Goldberg Discuss 9/11, Afghanistan, and Civic Amnesia
By Ben Sasse, Richard Goldberg, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Rama Burshtein and Meir Soloveichik Talk “Fill the Void”
By Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, Rama Burshtein, Jonathan SilverThe Israeli director and the American rabbi team up to discuss her groundbreaking film about marriage and Jewish life.
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What the Future Holds for Modern Orthodox Judaism: A Conversation
By Sarah Rindner, Jonathan Silver, Eli SpitzerA video of a discussion earlier this month with the Mosaic columnist Eli Spitzer and Sarah Rindner about the former's attention-grabbing argument about Modern Orthodox Judaism.
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Was Menachem Begin a Founder of Israel?
By Martin Kramer, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, Avi Shilon, Jonathan SilverIsrael's sixth prime minister was a leader of consequence and achievement. But how does he relate to Israel's origins?
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What the Current Situation Requires
By Jonathan SilverWe’re living in a period of disintegration in which the cultural and political bedrock is shifting beneath us. How should a magazine like Mosaic meet this moment?
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The Death and Potential Rebirth of the Liberal Self: A Discussion
By Nathan Shields, Ari Lamm, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Two Views of Jews and Free Speech
By Samuel Goldman, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
