The Internal Hamas Squabbles That Are Making Negotiations Harder
Both factions agree that Israel must be destroyed, but they disagree about Hamas’s current prospects.
July 21, 2025
The Career and Death of New York’s First, and Last, Chief Rabbi
A lesson in Jewish political assertiveness.
In Europe, it was common since medieval times for towns and cities to have a single chief rabbi—sometimes a position recognized by the government—who held sway over religious matters in the community. Nothing like this happened in America, and in the 1880s New York City’s thriving Orthodox community decided to do something about it. They brought Rabbi Jacob Joseph, a distinguished Russian talmudist, in the hope that he would impose order, which by and large he failed to do, as Richard Kreitner writes:
July 21, 2025
Israel’s Strategy in Syria
While the world sits silent, Jerusalem steps in to save the Druze.
Truth, Narratives, and the Middle East
Reminisces of Yasir Arafat and Edward Said’s nephew.
The Career and Death of New York’s First, and Last, Chief Rabbi
A lesson in Jewish political assertiveness.
The Pastor Who Founded Berlin’s First Hebrew Printing Press
Johannes Jablonski.
