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That Holocaust Feeling
The Oscar-winning new film Son of Saul drops us into the heart of Auschwitz. What’s the point?
Jerusalem Syndrome at the Met
An exhibition on the diverse multiculturalism of medieval Jerusalem has been ecstatically received. There’s just one problem: the vision of history it promotes is a myth.
The Shameful Cover-Up of the Worst Attack on Diaspora Jews Since the Holocaust
A personal look at the 25 years that have passed since the bombing of an Argentine Jewish center that killed 85 people, with no progress toward justice.
The Death of Morton Sobell and the End of the Rosenberg Affair
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 Great Arab Implosion and Its Consequences
Who or what will replace a century of failed Sunni Arab dominance? What, if anything, can the West do to help shape the future?
Does Europe Have a Future?
It’s both a continent and an idea, with an alternately heroic and ignominious past and, until recently, an enviable present. Can the heart of the West survive the 21st century?
The Humiliation of Jews Is the Point
Grotesque images of abused Israeli hostages and violations of dead Israeli bodies should remind us of the reality of evil and the necessity of countering it.
Our Man in Moscow
Vladimir Putin’s major new role in the Middle East is no accident. It’s part and parcel of President Obama’s broader strategy.
The New Catholic Zionism
Protestant evangelical Zionism has a centuries-old pedigree. Could Catholic Zionism, evolving over the last half-century, become official Church teaching?
The Mirage of an International Jerusalem
How the idea of Jerusalem’s status as an “international city” became embedded in countless UN resolutions and foreign policies, and why it is utterly baseless.
The Wreck of the Jewish Museum
From its priceless collection of artworks, a foremost cultural institution has harvested mainly inferior examples for display, while submerging Jewish identity in a sea of “universal values.”
The Spirit of Jewish Conservatism
Both in America and in Israel, the liberal faith of too many Jews has imperiled the Jewish future. Needed is a serious, thoughtful, and authentically Jewish alternative.
In Rejecting the Zoom Seder, What Did Orthodox Jews Affirm?
What the headline-making rabbinic showdown over online seders reveals about Jewish law and its limits.
The Decline—and Fall?—of Religious Freedom in America
America’s “first freedom” is under attack from an ascendant cultural secularism. Christians are its first target, but Jews and Judaism may not be far behind.