It’s a poem, not an instruction manual.

Mordecai the Machiavellian.

Or did he hate Judaism no more than he hated other religions?

A conservative Catholic professor’s reflections.

Acts of murder are not chapters in a novel to be parsed.

Yes to rescue, no to vengeance.

What are people good for, anyway?

For Levi, the core of Nazi barbarism was its reduction of unique human beings to anonymous things.

Two rabbis answer.

One offered his daughters to the mob, the other his son to God.

Israelis shouldn’t lose pride in their country.

A new translation of an 18th-century homily.

Or is it just that liberals can’t admit they care about the same things as conservatives?

A connection impossible to avoid.