Opinion | Poland’s Democratic Comeback
Poland has a long tradition of bucking political trends.
Opinion | When Government Leaves a Void
On the sixteenth day of the war, I found hope in an underground parking garage.
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.
Interview | The Perilous State of Our World Order
It’s a truism of geopolitics that disorder somewhere breeds disorder elsewhere.
Essay | The Stolen Beam
In South Dakota, Jewish homesteaders made their fortune on land the Lakota Nation once called home. One of their descendants explores what a process of repair and repentance might look like.
Jewish Word | The Twisted Path of the Word ‘Genocide’
Since October 7 and the subsequent Israel-Hamas war, the word genocide has been used liberally by parties on both sides of the conflict.
The Spice of Life
Lois and Arden Shenker of Portland, Oregon, have been collecting spice boxes from around the world since 1957, and now have a collection of 34.
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.Â
Interview | Let’s Say Israel Can Destroy Hamas. Then What?
If you want to end the Israeli Palestinian conflict, you need four things. You give me two of these things and I’ll give you a fighting chance to succeed.
What Can We Do With Our Anguish? Stay United and Fight
What can we American Jews do about the mortal perils now confronting the state of Israel, and about the resurgence of antisemitism in our own...
Danger on Israel’s Northern Border: An Interview with Hanin Ghaddar About Hezbollah and the Failed State of Lebanon
A look at the evolution of Hezbollah inside Lebanon’s fractured political system and Iran’s growing influence throughout the Middle East.