The U.S. Must Avoid a Bad Deal with Iran
America has the upper hand. It should use it.
April 24, 2026
The Enduring Legacy of Mordecai Kaplan
Reconstructionist Judaism failed as a denomination—even as American Jews absorbed its ideas.
Numerically speaking, Reconstructionist Judaism—founded, almost reluctantly, by Mordecai Kaplan—has been far less successful than the other three American denominations. Yet Kaplan’s theories, laid out in his 1934 magnum opus Judaism as a Civilization, in many ways speak more broadly to the ideas held by American Jews than do the formal theologies of Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform. Benjamin Weiner reviews Jenna Weissman Joselit’s new biography of this figure:
April 24, 2026
How to End U.S. Aid to Israel While Strengthening the U.S.-Israel Alliance
From patronage to partnership.
A Guide to Philo-Semitism
Why doesn’t everyone love the Jews?
The Enduring Legacy of Mordecai Kaplan
Reconstructionist Judaism failed as a denomination—even as American Jews absorbed its ideas.
How a Hasidic Rabbi Became a Social-Media Sensation
Shalom Landau’s common-sense Torah.