Are Any Lessons to Be Learned from the Israeli Elections?
Lessons for both the right and the left.
March 19, 2015
How Jews Helped Make MIT an Economics Powerhouse
It was willing to hire Jews in the years after World War II.
In the years following World War II, MIT’s economics department became one of the most important in the world, pioneering the field now known as macroeconomics. Theories of how MIT came to play this role abound; according to one, the university’s openness to Jews had something to do with it, as David Warsh writes:
March 19, 2015
Israeli Sanctions against Hamas Are Not Collective Punishment
One of many false accusations.
A French Graphic Novelist Investigates Judaism and the Diaspora
In best-selling comic books like The Rabbi's Cat and Klezmer.
How Jews Helped Make MIT an Economics Powerhouse
It was willing to hire Jews in the years after World War II.
No, Netanyahu Did Not Win Because of Racism
His election-day remarks may have been ill-advised, but they didn't change anything.