Observation ·
How the U.S. Attack on Iran Hurts Russia and China
By Zineb RibouaOperation Midnight Hammer deals a blow to the anti-Western alliance.
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Monthly Essay ·
Why Dostoevsky Loved Humanity and Hated the Jews
By Gary Saul MorsonThe case of the literary master helps explain why people who devote themselves to compassion for all so often make an exception for Jews.
Response ·
America Can No Longer Wait to Put Its Own House in Order
By Stephen Peter RosenCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
How the Jews of Russia Were Made Into the Jews of the Soviet Union
By Gary Saul MorsonJews were expected to transform their shtetl values, religious traditions, and bourgeois attitudes into muscular exemplars of humanity’s ideal, the New Soviet Man.
Observation ·
What Jabotinsky Had to Say about Ukraine
By Seth MandelA native of Odessa, the Jewish thinker needed no convincing that Ukrainians were a distinct nation. He understood that if they were subdued, no other nation would stand a chance.
Observation ·
Answering Israel’s Ukraine Critics
By Evelyn GordonIndignation at Israel's response to Russia’s invasion has intensified while becoming ever more untethered from the facts.
Observation ·
Israel’s Ukraine Problem, and America’s
By Andrew KossThe Jewish state has been criticized this week for not standing up for Ukraine against Russia. It would probably like to, but its hands have been tied by its own closest ally.
Response ·
Watch Mosaic’s Dramatic Reading of Isaac Babel’s “Red Cavalry”
By Jonathan Silver, Gary Saul Morson, Natan SharanskyCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Yuri Slezkine’s Undiscriminating Eye
By Andrew KossHow a much-lauded historian with a genius for identifying similarities—but no eye for differences—misreads Jewish history.
Monthly Essay ·
Israel’s Russian Wave, Thirty Years Later
By Matti FriedmanThree decades ago, a million emigres from Eastern Europe arrived in Israel, increasing its population by 20 percent almost overnight and changing its culture forever. What’s their story?
Observation ·
What Has Happened to the Jews of Ukraine
By Dovid MargolinCaught in the middle of Russia's hybrid war on their country, they need serious help—and nobody is listening.
Observation ·
The (Shockingly Low) Literacy Rate of Jews in Eastern Europe
By PhilologosThere were many more illiterate Jews in the Tsarist empire than we tend to think there were.
Response ·
How the “Protocols” Emboldened a Notorious Far-Right Russian Party
By Abraham AscherCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
Iran Must be Contained, but Iran Must Also Not be Viewed in Isolation
By Michael Doran, Peter RoughCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
The Moscow-Tehran Axis Is a Coalition of the Weak
By Frederick W. KaganCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
How to Drive a Wedge Between Russia and Iran
By Eran LermanCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
America Is Not in a Zero-Sum Contest with Iran
Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Monthly Essay ·
What America Should Do Next in the Middle East
By Michael Doran, Peter RoughThe policies of the Obama administration led to carnage in Syria, regional chaos, and the rise of Iran and its alliance with Russia. Can the momentum be reversed—without going to war?
Response ·
Three and a Half Lessons of Jewish-Russian History
By Maxim D. ShrayerCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
The Roots of Today’s Revival of Russian Judaism Lie Deep in the Soviet Past
By Dovid MargolinCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
The Putin Anomaly
By Leon AronCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
Where Would Russia’s Jews Go?
By Konstanty GebertCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Monthly Essay ·
The Prospect for Russia’s Jews
By Maxim D. ShrayerOutwardly secure and flourishing, the community is a fraction of its former size and dwindling. What troubles the minds of those who stay?
Response ·
The Factors Working in Israel’s Geopolitical Favor
By Arthur HermanCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
For Israel, the Task is to Work Even Harder to Keep Old Friends and Reach Out to New Ones
By Eran LermanCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
Everyone Loves Israel—Until They Don’t
By Robert SatloffCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Monthly Essay ·
Everybody Loves Israel
By Arthur HermanFormerly neutral or hostile countries from across the world, including Saudi Arabia and China, are now eagerly courting the Jewish state. What's going on?
Monthly Essay ·
Where Is the Jews’ Homeland?
By Hillel HalkinElsewhere than Zion, said the greatest Hebrew poet of the 19th century—until he changed his mind, paving the way for others.
Response ·
All the President’s Blunders
By Michael DoranCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
Why Obama Can’t Catch Up with Putin’s Increasingly Bold Moves
By Leon AronCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
