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American Jews

Latest Mosaic Content for American Jews

  1. Response ·

    Evaluating the American Jewish Response to October 7: With Jack Wertheimer, Armin Rosen, and Andres Spokoiny

    By The Editors

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Evaluating the American Jewish Response to October 7: With Jack Wertheimer, Armin Rosen, and Andres Spokoiny
  2. Observation ·

    What Can American Jews Do?

    By Dr. Ruth Wisse

    The direct target of anti-Jewish politics may be the Jews, but the more consequential damage is to the land of Lincoln. What can Jews do to help?

    What Can American Jews Do?
  3. Monthly Essay ·

    Jerusalem on the Atlantic

    By Tamara Berens

    Jews are pouring into south Florida by the thousands, remaking themselves and the area into one of the best places in the world for Jews to live. What’s driving this astonishing renaissance?

    Jerusalem on the Atlantic
  4. Observation ·

    What the Children of American Jewish Communists Needed, and What They Owe

    By Dr. Ruth Wisse

    The children of Jewish Communists needed a therapeutic process to work through the effects of growing up in a political cult. They didn't get it.

    What the Children of American Jewish Communists Needed, and What They Owe
  5. Observation ·

    What the Current Situation Requires

    By Jonathan Silver

    We’re living in a period of disintegration in which the cultural and political bedrock is shifting beneath us. How should a magazine like Mosaic meet this moment?

    What the Current Situation Requires
  6. Monthly Essay ·

    Skokie Then and Now

    By Samuel Goldman

    In 1977, a Jewish director of the ACLU famously agreed to defend the rights of neo-Nazis in Illinois to demonstrate in public. Would the same thing happen today—and should it?

    Skokie Then and Now
  7. Observation ·

    The Trouble at Northwestern

    By Gary Saul Morson

    I just wrote a book about new fundamentalisms with the university's much-loved Jewish president. Now one of those fundamentalisms, aided by its Jewish exponents, is coming for him.

    The Trouble at Northwestern
  8. Observation ·

    How to Think Politically About the Jews

    By Bruce Abramson, Jeff Ballabon

    Most American Jews no longer vote in a way that sets them apart from non-Jews. But a growing subsection stands out.

    How to Think Politically About the Jews
  9. Observation ·

    What Harry Houdini, the Quintessential Escape Artist, Declined to Escape

    By Michal Leibowitz

    Houdini's was the prototypically self-made American tale. But even while turning himself into the world's greatest breaker of constraints, he remained a proudly identified Jew.

    What Harry Houdini, the Quintessential Escape Artist, Declined to Escape
  10. Monthly Essay ·

    What Saul Bellow Saw

    By Dr. Ruth Wisse

    The Jewish writer who became America’s most decorated novelist spent his early years prodding the nation’s soul. Then, sensing danger to it, he took up the role of guardian.

    What Saul Bellow Saw
  11. Monthly Essay ·

    The Death of Morton Sobell and the End of the Rosenberg Affair

    By David Evanier

    With the recent death of the unrepentant spy, his story, along with that of other American Jews steeped in Communism, can finally be told.

    The Death of Morton Sobell and the End of the Rosenberg Affair
  12. Monthly Essay ·

    Can American and Israeli Jews Stay Together as One People?

    By Natan Sharansky, Gil Troy

    Long-festering strains between the world’s two largest communities jeopardize the prospects of a shared Jewish future. Here’s a way forward.

    Can American and Israeli Jews Stay Together as One People?
  13. Response ·

    Why the American Jewish Distancing from Israel Is So Heartbreaking

    By Daniel Gordis

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Why the American Jewish Distancing from Israel Is So Heartbreaking
  14. Response ·

    American Jewry Will No Longer Be the Center of the Jewish World

    By Elliott Abrams

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    American Jewry Will No Longer Be the Center of the Jewish World
  15. Response ·

    Israel: The Canvas on Which American Jews Project Their Hopes and Fears

    By Jack Wertheimer

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Israel: The Canvas on Which American Jews Project Their Hopes and Fears
  16. Response ·

    Unspoken Reasons for the American Jewish Distancing from Israel

    By Martin Kramer

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Unspoken Reasons for the American Jewish Distancing from Israel
  17. Response ·

    How American Jews Have Detached Themselves from Jewish Memory

    By Daniel Gordis

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    How American Jews Have Detached Themselves from Jewish Memory
  18. Observation ·

    The Future of US Jewry

    By Irving Kristol

    American Jews are "secure" but lack "self-confidence.” So Irving Kristol wrote in 1991. Right then; right now?

    The Future of US Jewry