History & Ideas

The great philosopher and jurist also wrote ten treatises of medicine. What ideas about human life do they contain?

Feb. 23 2024 12:01AM

In her latest short fiction, the great American Jewish writer retells the true story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Italian boy taken by the pope in 1858 and raised to become a priest.

Feb. 16 2024 12:01AM

Abraham Cahan’s still-relevant vision of America’s place in the world, and the Jews’ place in America.

Feb. 12 2024 12:01AM

Abraham Cahan was one of America’s first great Jewish newspapermen, and set an example of independent thinking that the nation could sorely use today.

Feb. 5 2024 12:01AM

The great rabbi introduced puzzling questions of philosophy and religion right under the surface of his writing. What are they?

Jan. 26 2024 12:01AM

The director of UN Watch explains the human-rights movement’s divorce from Israel.

Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic and Hillel Neuer
Jan. 19 2024 12:01AM

A Jewish lawyer coined the term because there was no word that described the murder of a whole people. But the definition he favored is so loose it can apply to almost any conflict.

Jan. 18 2024 12:01AM

An expert introduces the life and mind of the rabbi and great Jewish philosopher.

Jan. 12 2024 12:01AM

Israel’s founding father argued for a conception of politics uniquely tailored to the Jewish state. Fifty years after his death, his country could use it more than ever.

Jan. 8 2024 12:13AM

Some years in the Jewish calendar, like the current one, have an extra month. How’d that come about and why?

Jan. 2 2024 12:24AM

Many Dostoevsky scholars have been Jews, perhaps because the anti-Semitic writer needed to be seen as theirs—as almost Jewish in his concerns.

Dec. 26 2023 12:01AM

Featuring fears, fates, burdens of power, memory wars, Sabbath days, Russian writers and timeless questions, years of upheaval, Japanese Jews, and more.

Dec. 21 2023 12:01AM

Featuring prime ministers, kidnappings, popes, silences, exiled shadows, portraits, intellectual origins, the best minds, and more.

Dec. 20 2023 12:01AM

That’s why geniuses like Dostoevsky can love all humanity and hate the Jews.

Dec. 18 2023 12:01AM