Why Indonesia Wants to Get Involved in Gaza
Exporting moderate Islam.
October 29, 2025
The Beauty of Synagogue Music Can Only Be Sustained by Religious Commitment
A Scrutonian defense of nusah.
In The Death and Life of Nusah: Conservation and Innovation in the Transmission of Synagogue Chant, Charles Heller describes and criticizes the failure of Jewish communities to preserve the venerable melodies of prayer. (The word nusah can mean both liturgy and liturgical music.) Matt Austerklein, comparing Heller’s approach to the aesthetic conservatism of the English philosopher Roger Scruton, writes in his review:
October 29, 2025
The Israel-Palestinian Conflict Requires Not Peacemaking, but Constant Vigilance
How to fight barbarians.
Zohran Mamdani Isn’t an Islamist, but a Third-Worldist
The 1960s ideology now focuses its violent energies on Israel—and the Jews.
The Beauty of Synagogue Music Can Only Be Sustained by Religious Commitment
A Scrutonian defense of nusah.
The First Gap Year in Israel
The 1932 journey of the daughter of a prominent American rabbi.