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Back to SearchMichael Doran on Donald Trump's Middle East Policy
President Trump and his team came into the White House determined to reverse the course of American foreign policy. Most every president does. It’s what President Obama wished to do vis-à-vis Preside…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Benedict Kiely on Pope Francis and the State of Jewish-Catholic Relations
The Catholic cardinal Jorge Mario Bergolio ascended to the papacy in 2013. In honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, he chose as his papal name Francis. For a dozen years he was the head of the Catholic C…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Leon Kass on How Exodus Created the Jewish National Narrative
This week the Jewish people is not just celebrating, but reenacting the Exodus from Egypt that our ancestors undertook many generations ago. The complex, ritualized retelling of this story can be fou…
Published on 5 months ago
Dara Horn on Her New Graphic Novel
Later this week Jewish families all over the world will sit down at the seder table and, guided by the text of the Haggadah, recapitulate in a highly ornate and ritualized form the Israelite redempti…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
Tevi Troy on How Republican Administrations Argue about Israel
Is the Trump administration pro-Israel? There’s a great deal of evidence to believe it is. It’s given Israel the armaments and rhetorical support it needs to fight on until total victory in Gaza. It …
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Micah Goodman on What He’s Learned about Israel in the Past Year-and-a-Half
In the months leading up to the October 7 attacks, Israel was bitterly divided along the tribal lines that had been hardened by the government’s effort to reform the country’s judiciary. There were m…
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Mark Gottlieb and Anna Moreland on Judaism, Christianity, and Forgiveness
To expect women and men of flesh and blood to live lives of ethical perfection is to expect too much. Lapses in judgment, ignorance, vice, and sin are inescapable parts of the human condition. Each y…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Ronna Burger on Reading Esther as a Philosopher (Rebroadcast)
Today, as Jews celebrate the holiday of Purim, they’ll also study the book of Esther, named for the young queen whose Jewish identity was unknown to her husband—Persia's king—and his court. The book …
Published on 6 months ago
Reihan Salam on Rebuilding Urban Conservatism
New York City in the 1970s and 1980s was, to put it lightly, not a very safe or nice place to live. Drugs, crime, and public-sector mismanagement made it dangerous and unpleasant, and even the very w…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on Why the End of Palestinian Nationalism Can Bring Hope to Palestinians
Last February, the Egyptian-American intellectual Hussein Aboubakr Mansour wrote an article in which he considered the possibility of a new idea of Palestinian nationalism. The IDF was destroying Ham…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago