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Back to SearchJay Lefkowitz on New York City's Democratic Primary
On June 24, members of New York City's Democratic party will select their nominee for the mayoral election that is scheduled to take place in November of this year. As of last year, 56 percent of reg…
Published on 5 months ago
Sadanand Dhume on Israeli Arms and the India-Pakistan Conflict
On April 22, 2025, Islamist terrorists struck Indian civilians in Kashmir. Twenty-six people were killed, most of them Hindu tourists. This attack would trigger what analysts now call the "88-Hour Wa…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
Jeffrey Herf on the Transformation of Radical Speech into Violence
On April 13, 2025, an arsonist set fire to the residence of the governor of Pennsylvania. When apprehended, he told law-enforcement officers that he did so using Molotov cocktails. The attack took pl…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Judge Matthew Solomson on Orthodox Judaism and American Public Service
It's not uncommon, to put the matter lightly, to find Jewish Americans well represented in the legal field. But the conventional storybook narrative of how Jews rise to occupy positions of promise an…
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Yossi Melman on Israel's Most Famous Spy
In 2019, Netflix released a six-episode miniseries starring the English comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen. Cohen played an Israeli spy, Eli Cohen. The latter Cohen was a Jewish immigrant from Egyp…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
J.J. Kimche on Paul Johnson's Legacy of Philo-Semitism
Born in 1928 in Manchester, Paul Johnson was a British Catholic who while at the helm of the New Statesman liked to boast that he had met every British prime minister from Churchill to Blair and ever…
Published on 6 months ago
Ari Heistein on the American War on the Houthis, and the Israeli One
On May 4, 2025, a ballistic missile traveling up to sixteen times faster than the speed of sound struck ground close to the terminal at Ben-Gurion airport, halting flight traffic and leaving a crater…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Michael 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 6 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 6 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 7 months ago