IDF Spotters: ‘The men ignored us, and we all paid dearly’
Sources inside the IDF Spotters Unit and Intelligence’s Unit 8200 shed light on the catastrophic failures that led to October 7.
Video Essay | Volunteers Head South to Help Israeli Agriculture
“This is our lifeline. Israel is the only place for Jews to live and if we don’t keep it up and running we don’t have anywhere to go.”
Wisdom Project | Manny Lindenbaum on the Joy of Making a Difference
My aunt couldn’t stop hugging me. I didn’t remember ever having been hugged in my life. I remember thinking, “This is kind of nice.”
Keepers of the Diagnostic Keys
Fifty years ago my father led the psychiatric establishment in declaring that homosexuality was not a mental disorder, changing the tide of how being gay was seen in America.
Opinion | Breaking the Silence on Hamas’s War Crimes Against Women
The October 7 Hamas attack showed that sex crimes are not absent from the modern battlefield.
Opinion Interview with Dina Porat | Do Israelis Want Revenge?
As chief historian at Yad Vashem from 2011 to 2021, and now the institution’s senior academic advisor, Dina Porat has the chops—the moral authority, if you will—to poke into dark and troubling corners of the Israeli national psyche.
From the Editor | A Dangerous Paradigm Shift—for Everyone
I am always amazed at the power of one violent act to upend the fragile progress of humanity—in particular the painstaking work of constructing peace.
Opinion | The Campus Conundrum
Antisemitism, like Islamophobia—charges of which have been similarly made by Muslim and Arab students on a number of campuses—should be calculated by actual, violent incidents on campuses, not by unverifiable threats, or perceived feelings of being threatened.
Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch, an Anti-Jewish Pogrom, and the U.S. State Department
The Americans soon forgot the turmoil in the streets of Munich in the fall of 1923. The Jews of Munich did not.
The Anatomy of a Pogrom
As this went on, Russia’s law enforcement authorities stayed out of the way. Riot police showed up 90 minutes after the start of the rampage. Who can blame them for taking their time?
Opinion | We Israelis Need Moral Clarity—Not Revenge
No country could be expected to forgo retaliation for attacks on innocent citizens in its own territory. But what are the long-term goals?
Opinion | The Arsenal of Memory
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not only a clash of two nationalisms with overlapping claims to territory—it is also a clash of histories, whose wounds resist healing.