Opinion | Israel’s ‘Democracy Quake’
In future times—may they be happier and calmer—we will remember the year between April 2019 and March 2020 as Israel’s annus horribilis.
Opinion | The Life-Changing Magic of Clutter
“I remember where, or whom, each object came from, what it stands for, and why I’ve kept it.”
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 any part in her decision.
Debate | Are Colleges Overprotecting Their Students? | No
The university context is special, because students have a status that allows the university to regulate them qua students—which is very different from the relationship between a citizen and the state.
Debate | Are Colleges Overprotecting Their Students? | Yes
Not only does the university not have the right, or the power, to educate students in what it thinks is civil or not civil; doing so is contrary to the goal of a liberal arts education.
Opinion Interview | Will the Middle East Erupt?
When a Middle East crisis erupts, it can be hard to think long term. But Robert Malley sees larger, longer-running dangers in the region.
Opinion | History Held Hostage
Until the doors of Warsaw’s POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews opened six-and-a-half years ago
Opinion | The Politics of a Mizrachi Millennial
In August 2015, I was part of a bipartisan group of young Iranian-American Jews from Los Angeles who met with Representative Ted Lieu.
Opinion | Murder Rate Rises Among Israel’s Arabs
Only one political faction could look with satisfaction at the indecisive results of the second 2019 Israel election.
Opinion | The Elephant in the Impeachment Inquiry
With Syria in turmoil, the Kurds in flight and its own government in prolonged limbo, the last thing Israel probably wants to worry about right now is an American impeachment process.
Opinion Interview | Steven Waldman on America’s Long Struggle for Religious Liberty
Most recently, Waldman says he’s alarmed by the level of bigotry faced by Muslims—often unnoticed by those who consider themselves “persecuted” by, say, gay couples wanting wedding cakes, but who see all Muslims as terrorists and oppose the construction of mosques.
Opinion | Grumpy Jewish Grandpa 2020
Senator Bernie Sanders gets a lot of grief for being loud. “You don’t have to yell,” Representative Tim Ryan told the senator during CNN’s second Democratic primary debate.