What the President’s Riyadh Speech Got Right, and What It Overlooked
Where does terrorism come from, anyway?
May 23, 2017
His Life with Hebrew
After many decades, not yet fluent.
Alan Mintz, one of America’s foremost scholars of modern Hebrew literature, died on Saturday at the age of sixty-nine. Last month, he published in Mosaic a personal essay on his career studying, teaching, and speaking the language that, as “the portable component of the Jewish national idea,” was to him a constant and sustaining “source of nourishment and delight”:
May 23, 2017
Could a Trump Doctrine Repair America’s Middle East Policy?
Dismissing long-held fallacies about the region.
His Life with Hebrew
After many decades, not yet fluent.
The Six-Day War Viewed from Inside the Israeli Cabinet
Gripping reading from recently declassified documents.
Government Shouldn’t Be Responsible for Keeping Politics away from the Pulpit
The Jewish case against the Johnson Amendment.