How Anti-Semites and Isolationists Misunderstand the U.S.-Israel Alliance
The right way to conserve the American inheritance.
October 23, 2026
A Rabbinic Court Case Presses the Limits of Religious Freedom
Why the Supreme Court was asked to intervene.
When observant Jews have a civil dispute, they are required by halakhah to take it to a rabbinic court or beit din. The American legal system generally upholds the decisions of these courts as it would any binding arbitration. But sometimes things go wrong and state and federal courts are asked to step in. A complex litigation involving two civil courts and three rabbinic ones led to a federal judge’s forceful intervention; in response, one party, Samuel Strulovich, appealed that decision to the Supreme Court. Michael A. Helfand and Chaim Saiman write:
October 23, 2026
Britains’ Defenders of Terror Ought to Think about the Consequences of Their Arguments
Sally Rooney, Palestine Action, and liberal hypocrisy.
Do the Jews Need a Golem, or Just a Willingness to Fight?
Contemporary Jewish writers use the mythical monster to air their own discomfort with Jewish power.
A Rabbinic Court Case Presses the Limits of Religious Freedom
Why the Supreme Court was asked to intervene.
Remembering Jewish Lebanon
Could return visits happen some day?