Monthly Essays

The post-October 7 explosion of hostility challenges decades of Jewish communal strategy.

October 7 was not Palestine’s independence day, but the final nail in the two-state solution’s coffin. Is confederation with Jordan all that remains?

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

Today’s Islamism promises authenticity but is postmodern in form, postcolonial in posture, and pretends to retrieve the sacred through the techniques of the profane.

Fighting Israel’s longest war, the IDF’s citizen soldiers are revitalizing the Zionist ideal.

The Bible shows our humanity while taking us back to the solitary, deep-water worm of our primordial origins.

In the 1860s, a British explorer discovered the City of David. Fifteen years ago, the Palestinian Authority tried to stop those who wanted to follow in his footsteps.

Jewish schools can illuminate the tradeoffs of screen-mediated learning, and show the country how to refocus on education’s higher purposes.