Understanding the Background of the White House Ruling on Anti-Semitism and the Civil Rights Act
The lack of a coherent legal conception of Jewish identity rendered the Department of Education unable to cope with anti-Semitic incidents on campus.
December 13, 2019
Finland’s Exceptional Jewish Community
Shaping history rather than being shaped by it.
Until 1809, Finland and Sweden were a single country, and the two countries still share much in terms of their legal systems. Yet, writes Annika Hernroth-Rothstein—herself a native of Sweden—the two Jewish communities could not be more different. Swedish Jews suffer from widespread anti-Semitism, while Finland has relatively little by European standards. Moreover, Finnish Jewry seems to display a self-confidence that their Swedish coreligionists lack. “Finnish Jews were said to be tougher, taller, and even quieter than their Swedish counterparts,” Hernroth-Rothstein notes. In this exploration of Finnish Jewry, excerpted from her forthcoming book, she tries to answer the question of why this should be, beginning with attitudes toward the Jewish state:
December 13, 2019
Israel’s Third Elections Might Not Be Such a Disaster, After All
Enabling the electorate to work through the hugely sensitive decision of who should lead the country.
From Jersey City, a Bloody Lesson on the Real, and the Imagined, Dangers Facing American Jews
Don’t expect left-wing politicians to take action against the former.
Finland’s Exceptional Jewish Community
Shaping history rather than being shaped by it.
What the Masada Scrolls Reveal about Second Temple Judaism
The Dead Sea sect might not have been so unusual as once thought.