No, Turkey Isn’t Becoming the Next Iran
But its rise should still be a strategic concern for Jerusalem.
July 7, 2026
The Synagogue President Who Helped Define American Religious Liberty
Moses Seixas and George Washington.
This week seems an especially appropriate time to recall George Washington’s famous 1790 letters to American Jews. The best-known of these, addressed to the congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, borrowed one of its most celebrated phrases from the letter to which it responded—written by the synagogue’s lay leader Moses Seixas (the key phrase in bold):
July 7, 2026
How NGOs Came to Be Admired, and Why They Shouldn’t Be
Neither altruistic nor even nongovernmental.
Republican Support for Israel Holds Strong
A new poll is grounds for cautious optimism.
The Synagogue President Who Helped Define American Religious Liberty
Moses Seixas and George Washington.
Vasily Grossman Broke the Soviet Taboo on Naming Jewish Suffering
The writer who reported from the death camps.