While Islamic Jihad Launches Rockets at Israel, Hamas Faces a Dilemma
One wants quiet, the other to “engage the enemy.”
November 13, 2019
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.
According to the conventional wisdom on the American Jewish left, Israel’s continued presence in the West Bank, together with the policies of the Likud, have alienated U.S. Jewry from the Jewish state. The Israeli right, too, has its own variation on this narrative—namely, that American Jews can’t possibly understand the security challenges Israelis face. In Divided We Stand, Daniel Gordis argues that the profound differences between the two Jewries go back a century and revolve around issues far more fundamental than conventional wisdom assumes. Haviv Rettig Gur suggests an additional explanation for Jewry’s great divide:
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.