Originally, Jews didn’t kindle lights to celebrate the holiday.

Deeply rooted, but with cosmopolitan horizons.

Strong enough to break through post-Zionist cynicism.

In praise of an unfashionable literary master.

The Jewish state has fulfilled many of his aspirations for the messianic era.

A great historian who saw through the conventional wisdom.

A tale of two Josephs.

Are there more important things than being a Jew?

Hermann Struck’s World War I.

Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof.

A tale of two Mordecais and a failed attempt to create a Jewish statelet in western New York.

The Berlin Makkabis.

To fight its enemies, the Jewish state should distance itself from victimhood.

Driven less by expedience than by a commitment to Jewish particularism.