From the Editor | Searching for Our Ben-Gurion and Jabotinsky
In the 1920s, two strong-willed leaders clashed fiercely over different visions of the Jewish state. Eventually, they became friends.
Opinion | Is Antisemitism Eternal?
The “essentialist” antisemitism argument is oddly comforting—It’s not us, it’s them!—but also dangerous.
Moment Debate | Who Do You Think Would Make a Better President—Biden or Trump?
Two Jewish voters explain their pick for president—and the impact of issues like Trump’s convictions and Biden’s handling of the war in Gaza.
Opinion | A ‘Mixed’ Marriage, a Lifelong Journey
Bert and I met on June 9, 1963, fell madly in love, talked incessantly, got engaged in October and married two months later, astonished by our commonalities and delighted by our differences.
From the Margins to the Mainstream
Thirty years after the Rebbe’s death, is Chabad the most influential Jewish denomination today?
Opinion | Jewish Anti-Zionists, Check Your Privilege
It’s easy to say a Jewish state is not needed from the safety of the United States.
Opinion | A Deportation Policy With Chilling Echoes
Stephen Miller, Trump’s speechwriter and the architect of the deportation proposal, promised the biggest forced movement of people in American history.
Book Review | Noah Feldman Explains Us To Ourselves
Noah Feldman’s “To Be A Jew” Today offers readers from many branches of the Jewish family tree a glimpse of other boughs and limbs and what their close and distant cousins in Jewishness make of life in the family.
Opinion | Is the Christian Right Coming for Birth Control?
“Trump’s base wants Trump because he’s their messianic hero, but also because he enables a small bloc of religious zealots to use the government to impose their biblical worldview on everyone else.”
Jewish Word | Verklempt: The Yiddish Word that Wasn’t
Borrowed from Yiddish and launched into the cultural stratosphere by a Canadian comedian and his Jewish mother-in-law, “verklempt” keeps evolving.
Talk of the Table | Hot Diggity Dog!
“He is the creature whose yells make night hideous, and whose wares make dreams that poison sleep,” began a Nashville newspaper’s 1886 characterization of the wienerwurst vendor.