Why Indonesia Wants to Get Involved in Gaza
Exporting moderate Islam.
October 29, 2025
The First Gap Year in Israel
The 1932 journey of the daughter of a prominent American rabbi.
In 1932, Hadassah Kaplan—daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstruction Judaism—set off from America for a year in the Land of Israel. A recent college graduate, the nineteen-year-old Kaplan benefitted from her parents’ connections with various Yishuv dignitaries. The trip is the subject of a new book by Kaplan’s granddaughter, Sharon Ann Musher. Allan Arkush 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.