Politics & Current Affairs
The victims were targeted as Americans. Why hasn’t that blunt and inescapable fact been placed at the center of our account twenty years later?
America has been learning and forgetting the lessons of 2001 for decades. It’s now in the midst of forgetting them again. Will the same result follow?
S. Ansky’s radical yeshiva boys used to seem unreal. But observing today’s political scene has taught me to understand them.
The author of an attention-grabbing new book explores the world’s fascination with dead Jews and its indifference to living ones.
The Startup Wife, a buzzy new novel, has been hailed as a serious exploration of modern spirituality. All it explores is a tech-fantasy of hyper-individualism and personal fulfillment.
The trend is disturbing, no doubt. But owning up to it is better than staying in your own comforting reality.
Diversity has become a prime goal in the world of higher education. How did religious diversity get left out of the mix?
Parts of the Jewish people stand up to the barrage of anti-Semitism, but others do not. Those others are part of the threat.
Many of those who would do away with Israel evince no pre-existing hostility to Jews that I can see. But their motivations are beside the point.
A former senior civil-rights official joins us to explain why properly defining anti-Semitism is so important to the U.S. government’s fight against discrimination.
It’s already the best of the several definitions out there. And, by offering yet clearer guidance on the question of Zionism, it could get even stronger.
To ease social animosities and heal political wounds, leaders and citizens in America and Israel must rededicate themselves to the principles of liberal democracy.
That’s why I signed the Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism.
Despite many real disappointments, the turmoil of the past decade has also revealed signs of promise in the Middle East.
