Opinion | The Other COVID-19 Effect
Like a first-rate burglar breaking into every apartment in a condominium, the COVID-19 pandemic has breached almost every country in the world, catching each one in its own incidental moment of current affairs....
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A Mockery of Justice
On April 2, in the midst of the pandemic, a regional Pakistani court overturned the murder conviction and death sentence of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the man convicted in the 2002 killing of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl....
The Haggadah: A Book of Beloved Imperfections
The Passover Haggadah could hardly be more different from the Torah. A Torah scroll is housed in a synagogue....
The Yazidis: A Faith Without A Future?
In 2014, ISIS forced them from their homes in Iraq. Many fled the country. The rest remain displaced, afraid to return home. ...
Opinion | A New Age of Moderate Islam
Let us start with the difficult truths. To many Americans and many Jews, Islam by its very nature demands violence against infidels....
What Zombie Expert Max Brooks Can Teach Us About Coronavirus
Max Brooks is best known as the author of the novel World War Z. But he also uses apocalyptic stories to teach us how to respond to large-scale crises....
Talking With God at Auschwitz
A new exhibition marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the former death camp examines how faith helped sustain people during the Holocaust....
Anti-Semitism Monitor December Findings
If you want to understand the nature of resurgent anti-Semitism in the United States, as well as to confront the obstacles to combating it, you could hardly find a more useful guide then by examining the events of the last month of 2019. ...
Opinion | Mike Pompeo Was Right
When my daughter Bracha decided to sell her apartment in Modi’in, a small city between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and move to a spacious corner house in Elkana, one of the first settlements over the so-called Green Line, no ideology or nefarious government scheme played...
Opinion | When Political Enemies Become Satan
Countries with proportional election systems usually resist political paralysis. When multiple parties can form coalitions, the theory goes, polarization won’t happen as readily....