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Finding Solace and Strength in Israel
Rabbi Soloveichik reviews the journalist Douglas Murray's new book, "On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel…
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Larry Summers’s Lease Hath All Too Short a Date
Is anti-Semitism a human evil, or just a temporary and unfortunate illness?…
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Jewish Identity vs. Identity Politics
How can we be supportive of one and not the other?…
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Why Jews Don’t Eat Pork (Though Some Do)
A new book explains how pork became the forbidden food par excellence.
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A Jewish Moment Without Parallel
Various aspects of Jewish existence at present seem less like the biblical description of what…
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Agam Berger, the Hostage Who Kept the Sabbath
She has profound parallels in the ancient history of the Jewish people.
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Unimaginable
Playing the Beatles' song "Imagine" at President Carter's funeral is a reminder of the tragedy…
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Why Israel Can Count on Us
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s Israel Alone contains much truth, but its title is fundamentally false.
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The Golden Age of American Jewry Hasn’t Ended. It May Have Just Begun
What Winston Churchill and Jerry Seinfeld can teach us about the challenges we face.
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American Jews and the Conservative Conscience
How the dean of American conservatism purged anti-Semites from his movement, and what his legacy…