Climate Change, Intifada, the Disturbances in France—and Greta Thunberg
The “omnicause” has a way of finding the Jews.
October 19, 2026
The State of Israel as a Summons to the Jewish People
Seven decades after Rabbi Soloveitchik’s “The Voice of My Beloved Knocks.”
Seventy years ago, Joseph B. Soloveitchik, then one of America’s leading rabbis, delivered a Yiddish lecture on the theological meaning of the creation of the Jewish state, which was later published in Hebrew as Kol Dodi Dofek, “The Voice of My Beloved Knocks” (after Song of Songs 5:2). Tzvi Fishman revisits the argument:
October 19, 2026
What International Law Really Says about Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza
Even those who should know better insist on getting it wrong.
The First Jews to Win the Nobel Prize
Alfred Fried was a proud Jew, but wrong.
The Oklahoma Case That Could Pave the Way for Free Jewish Education
A setback for Ben Gamla, but not for the cause.
The State of Israel as a Summons to the Jewish People
Seven decades after Rabbi Soloveitchik’s “The Voice of My Beloved Knocks.”