While Islamic Jihad Launches Rockets at Israel, Hamas Faces a Dilemma
One wants quiet, the other to “engage the enemy.”
November 13, 2019
As Fewer Americans Marry, Jewish Marriage Rates Prove Surprisingly Resilient
Even after taking the Orthodox out of the picture.
Since the 1960s, the proportion of Americans who marry has declined precipitously, while those who marry tend to do so later, and divorce rates have risen. Jews are by no means immune to these trends, but have been less affected that the overall population, marrying more than Catholics, Protestants, or Muslims, although less than Mormons and Hindus. More surprisingly, these trends hold true even when the Orthodox are removed from the picture. Charles Fain Lehman seeks an explanation.
November 13, 2019
Bernie Sanders’ Proposal for Fighting Anti-Semitism Involves Subsuming It in a Laundry List of Progressive Causes
As Soviet history shows, it’s an approach that’s bound to fail.
It’s Not Benjamin Netanyahu or the West Bank That Divides American Jews from Their Israeli Coreligionists, but Something Much Deeper
In the U.S., Jews, too, have absorbed Protestant individualism.
As Fewer Americans Marry, Jewish Marriage Rates Prove Surprisingly Resilient
Even after taking the Orthodox out of the picture.
France’s Oldest Synagogue, and the History beneath It
When Jews in France were being persecuted, the pope protected those in Carpentras.