The U.S. Is Poised to Make a Nuclear Deal with Iran That Expires in Twenty Months
How three presidents failed to do the possible.
March 4, 2022
The American Bat Mitzvah Celebrates Its Hundredth Birthday
For post-war rabbis, it was a tool for revitalization.
A century ago this month, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan—a Russian-born American Jewish thinker who founded the Reconstructionist movement—held a bat mitzvah for his daughter Judith. Menachem Wecker revisits the event, and the history of the ritual in America:
March 4, 2022
Europe Should Be Getting Its Gas from Israel and Its Neighbors, Rather Than Russia
Yet the Biden administration scuppered a plan to make that happen.
How an American Ambassador Fought Off the State Department to Make Peace between Israel and Arab Nations
David Friedman vs. the striped-pants boys.
The History of Ukraine through a Jewish Lens
Economic flourishing, murderous anti-Semitism, and spiritual creativity.
The American Bat Mitzvah Celebrates Its Hundredth Birthday
For post-war rabbis, it was a tool for revitalization.