The Biden Administration’s Moral Confusion about Confronting Foreign Threats
A national security strategy that can’t identify enemies.
February 8, 2023
A New Horror Film’s Surprisingly Sensitive Treatment of Hasidic Life
The Offering.
Based on a now-obscure bit of Jewish (and Near Eastern) lore about a demon named Abyzou, the horror movie The Offering has as its central characters an American ḥasidic family. Chaya Sara Oppenheim notes in her review that—unlike so many cinematic and television portraits of Ḥaredim—this one is both sympathetic and attuned to the nuances of Orthodox life:
February 8, 2023
How One Arab Changed His Mind about Israel
“Normalization with the Zionist enemy.”
Ilhan Omar Wasn’t Removed from a Congressional Committee for Being “Critical of Israel”
Setting the record straight.
Three Thousand Years of Jewish Reactions to Pandemics
The Eleventh Plague.
A New Horror Film’s Surprisingly Sensitive Treatment of Hasidic Life
The Offering.