Home to the Temple Mount, the Dome of the Rock, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the city of Jerusalem has unparalleled spiritual significance fo...
Podcast: Daniel Gordis on on the Rift Between American and Israeli Jews (rebroadcast)
It's sometimes asserted, particularly in elite circles, that liberal American Jews have grown distant from Israel because of Israel’s actions, includi...
Yehoshua Pfeffer on How Haredi Jews Think About Serving in the IDF
Mandatory army service plays an essential function within Israeli civic culture, absorbing and equalizing Ashkenazi, Mizraḥi (Middle Eastern), religio...
Shalom Carmy on Jewish Understanding of Human Suffering
On June 24, 2021, in the middle of the night, part of a 12-story condominium building in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida suddenly collapsed. Thu...
Dru Johnson on Biblical Philosophy
There's a distinction often made between two common approaches to the human longing for wisdom. The first approach, philosophy, is considered the unas...
David Rozenson on How His Family Escaped the Soviet Union and Why He Chose To Return
The Soviet Union was deeply against religion, and in particular was deeply against Judaism, so that the full embrace of Jewish religious observance, o...
Podcast: Matti Friedman on How Americans Project Their Own Problems onto Israel
In 1958, the American author Leon Uris published Exodus, the novel about Israel’s founding that became an international phenomenon. Its hero, though a...
Benjamin Haddad on Why Europe is Becoming More Pro-Israel
Among European diplomats and public figures in the 1990s, it was universally believed that the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians was the ce...
Seth Siegel on Israel's Water Revolution
“Water,” said Israel’s second prime minister Levi Eshkol, “is to the country like blood to a human being.” From the time of the Hebrew Bible and throu...
Michael Doran on America's Strategic Realignment in the Middle East
In wake of President Biden’s inauguration, experienced foreign-policy hands argued over what could be learned about his administration’s approach to I...