Monthly Essay ·
After the Ayatollah
By Hussein Aboubakr MansourThe death of Ali Khamenei and the end of political Islam’s century-long experiment in power.
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Public Affairs
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Response ·
American Jews and the Rise of Anti-Semitism: What We’ve Learned and What Comes Next
By Jack Wertheimer, Jonathan Silver, David L. BernsteinA conversation about how to fight anti-Semitism in America.
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The Universities and the American Crisis
By Ben SasseAmerican universities are descending into tribalism and anti-Semitism. To turn back the tide, we must rekindle the vision of the founders.
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Saving American Universities Requires Cracking Down on Foreign Funding
By Danielle PletkaJust say no to money that fosters anti-Semitism.
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Return American Universities to Their Religion-Friendly Roots
By Liel LeibovitzWe have a golden opportunity to remember what higher education is for.
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The Moral Collapse on Campus Is a Result of the Hollowing Out of the Humanities
By Alexander S. DuffMending a civic and intellectual catastrophe.
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Jews Shouldn’t Give Up on Universities, and Neither Should America
By Eitan WebbWhat Chabad knows about Jews on campus.
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The Future of Universities Must Be Built on Firm Values
By Daniel DiermeierAnd thoughtful, respectful dialogue must be one of them.
Response ·
How Jewish Studies Became a Tool of Adversarial Culture
By Ruth R. WisseRather than highlighting Jewish contribution, the field now aims to show Jews as victims, socialists, aberrant, or “queer.”
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Universities Need Teachers Who Want to Teach, and Students Willing to Learn
By Bella BrannonMake yourself a teacher, and get yourself a friend
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The Future of Higher Education and the Jews: A Symposium
By The EditorsLeading thinkers situate the Jewish question in a larger discussion about how to strengthen, reform, and renew American universities.
Monthly Essay ·
A College Guide for the Perplexed
By Eric Cohen, Samuel HelyarWith anti-Semitism on the rise and the humanities in decline, how can young Jews pick the right university?
Observation ·
What to Do When a U.S. President Lays a Wreath at a Cemetery for Nazi War Dead
By Avi WeissThe Bitburg controversy, 40 years on.
Observation ·
Diplomacy and Airstrikes Haven’t Stopped the Houthis. What Will?
By Ari HeisteinAny agreement the terrorist group will accept is one the West would be better off rejecting.
Response ·
How the Next President Can Help Restore Jewish Civil Rights on Campus
By The EditorsTal Fortgang and David E. Bernstein discuss how Jews can persuade America to crack down on anti-Semitism.
Observation ·
The Onslaught against the Jews Is an Onslaught against the West
By Melanie PhillipsHow the Palestinian narrative exploited a self-destructive weakness in Western society.
Monthly Essay ·
How the Incoming Administration Can Restore Jewish Civil Rights
By Tal FortgangThe government can break the wave of anti-Semitism subsuming American college campuses. But it will take political will.
Response ·
Evaluating the American Jewish Response to October 7: With Jack Wertheimer, Armin Rosen, and Andres Spokoiny
By The EditorsThree leading observers of American Jewry discuss the strengths and weaknesses of its actions after October 7.
Response ·
Watch Andrew Koss and David N. Myers Discuss Whether Jewish Studies Has Turned against the Jews
By Andrew Koss, Jonathan SilverA Mosaic editor and a Jewish studies professor discuss if and how Jewish studies has lost its way, and whether it can recover.
Monthly Essay ·
The Exodus Project: A Jewish Answer to the University Crisis
By Eric CohenAmerican Jews feel betrayed by the very institutions they helped build. It’s time for young Jews to go to colleges and universities that welcome and embrace them.
Monthly Essay ·
Jewish Studies against the Jews
By Andrew KossAs America's universities catch fire and its Jewish students grow more fearful, the field most likely to have something to say has remained silent—or worse. How did it go wrong?
Response ·
Will Jewish Tradition Adapt to AI?
By Moshe KoppelJudaism has the resources to confront artificial intelligence, if Jews are prudent about how to use them.
Observation ·
The Genial, Jewish Joseph Lieberman
By Elliott AbramsA practicing Orthodox Jew, the late senator lived his faith; no political triumph ever seemed to dent his graciousness.
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Jews Aren’t Loud Enough about AI
By David Zvi KalmanJews can help the wider world fight the excesses of artificial intelligence, but in order to do so they need to learn how to speak about such matters in a language non-Jews understand.
Monthly Essay ·
What Artificial Intelligence Has In Store for Judaism
By Moshe KoppelAI has the potential to change the way Jews study Torah, observe Jewish law, work with rabbis, and teach their children. Will Jews resist those changes or welcome them?
Observation ·
The World Is Not Taking the Houthis Seriously Enough
By Ari Heistein, Jason M. BrodskyOf all the actors that have taken the world stage since October 7, the Houthis are surely the most surprising. Where did they come from and what do they want?
Observation ·
Tit for Tat Is a Bad Way of Arguing about Gaza
By PhilologosTwo or three thoughts on the “dehumanizing” discourse.
Observation ·
Israel and the CNN Effect
By Shlomo BrodyImages of bloodshed in Gaza should upset anyone with a healthy moral sense. But they don't help determine whether the actions that brought these scenes about were ethical.
Observation ·
What Kissinger Really Thought
By Elliott Abrams, Norman Podhoretz, Jonathan SilverInterviews with Norman Podhoretz and Elliott Abrams recreate the foreign-policy debates of the cold war, and illuminate Kissinger's attitudes toward Israel and the Jewish people.
Observation ·
The Biden Administration’s Anti-Semitism Blindspot
By Ruth R. WisseWill the administration’s new strategy to counter anti-Semitism camouflage its own inaction?
