Response ·
Harvey Klehr, Eli Lake, and Izabella Tabarovsky on how Soviet ideology created Jewish opposition to the Jewish state—and what it means for American Jews now.
Monthly Essay ·
One-hundred years of betrayal, beginning with directives from Stalin.
Observation ·
A newly declassified document is being touted as proof of her innocence. But it only confirms her involvement in a Soviet spy ring.
Observation ·
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.
Response ·
Watch our recording of the classic Russian Jewish stories. Then stick around for the discussion with Natan Sharansky, Ruth Wisse, and Gary Saul Morson.
Monthly Essay ·
The great Russian Jewish writer was caught between revolution and daily life, Bolsheviks and Jews, a desire to kill and an inability to pull the trigger. Did he ever choose?
Response ·
The author of "The Eternal Return of Ethel Rosenberg" joins us for a discussion about his subject's unending—and false—air of innocence.
Monthly Essay ·
Longing to leave liberalism behind, everyone from Catholics to Communists is experimenting with self-transformation. What's fueling that desire, and is it strong enough to make the break?
Observation ·
A newly translated memoir of the gulag should (but probably won't) remind those who still flirt with Communism what exactly they're endorsing.
Observation ·
How a much-lauded historian with a genius for identifying similarities—but no eye for differences—misreads Jewish history.
Observation ·
In 1948, the nascent state enjoyed political support from almost the entire global left. A new book by a member of today's left takes a close look at how and why that changed.
Response ·
I am fortunate to have witnessed, and been offered, not only real madness but also real, and not delusional, goodness.
Response ·
Airing the complicity of some American Jews with Soviet criminality is essential to the honor and the reputation of the Jewish people.
Response ·
But notoriously some, like Morton Sobell, were both. For the Jewish community, their highly visible profile was a constant source of tension and embarrassment.
Monthly Essay ·
With the recent death of the unrepentant spy, his story, along with that of other American Jews steeped in Communism, can finally be told.
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