Sarah Posner
As the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 attack gears up to hold televised hearings this spring, lawmakers probably won’t devote much airtime to religion’s role in the assault on our democracy.
Kati Marton doesn’t think of herself as a political activist.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, an interesting overlap emerged in Israeli public discourse.
Abortion bans are predicated on assumptions about when life begins that have specific Christian theological assumptions baked into them.
I’ve been obsessed with Black-Jewish relations for half a century.
Naomi Ragen
I remember the Shitrit family. Very devout new immigrants from Morocco, they lived in the building next to mine in Sanhedria Murchevet, the dusty Northern Jerusalem neighborhood designated for religious olim, or immigrants, by the Jewish Agency in the 1970s.
In December, Arab Knesset member Mansour Abbas noted that Israel was born as a Jewish state and will remain one, so the pressing question of the status of Arab citizens there “is not about the state’s identity.”
As 2022 ushers in a new political cycle, the relationship between former president Donald Trump and his supporters in the Jewish community—a minority, but a passionate and often influential one—seems set to enter a new and more complicated phase.
Moment
Democracy entails more than merely majority rule. It implies concern about minority rights.
Sarah Posner
White replacement theory, the repugnant racist trope that claims America’s white population is being displaced by people of color, is once again receiving a wide audience among those feeling malnourished by Donald Trump’s absence from their social media feeds.
It is easy to list the many things that the relatively new and highly diverse Israeli government cannot do. Example: It cannot advance a peace process with the Palestinians, nor an annexation in the West Bank.
On July 1,1942, Cairo was about to fall to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s German and Italian forces.
