1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (438+ words) Whether a student says, "I believe there are only two genders," or "I believe Palestinians are undergoing a genocide," they should not be silenced or punished for expressing their beliefs." This snack-size bite of Burkean wisdom comes from Sameerah Munshi,…...

4+ hour, 7+ min ago   (942+ words) After "douard Manet caused a firestorm in the late 1860s with his politically provocative paintings The Execution of Maximilian, he got a consoling note from his friend, the poet and critic Charles Baudelaire. "Monsieur," Baudelaire wrote, "it seems you have the…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (279+ words) The good news is that nine in 10 American Jews are Zionists. The bad news is that only a third of American Jews say they're Zionists. The data come from a survey by the Jewish Federations of North America, whose chief…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (411+ words) Does the headquarters of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service have a daycare? The BND's fort-like home is probably the most secure building in Europe, and for good reason. Who could possibly require better on-site security than the spymasters of Berlin? Except,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (335+ words) Podhoretz was born in Brooklyn but spoke the Galician Yiddish of his parents as a first language. He attended a secular elementary school but went to cheder afterward a few days a week. His secondary education followed this model, as…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (349+ words) In the wake of the Bondi Beach massacre, Hugh Hewitt asked me during a segment on his show whether I thought Jews should arm themselves. I responded that Jews in America are indeed, in increasing numbers, following Vladimir Jabotinsky's exhortation…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (434+ words) There's usually more to a political scandal than what is known when the scandal is discovered. But rarely is there this much more. In Birmingham, a police decision to ban Maccabi fans from a November soccer match turns out to…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (259+ words) Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan finally got what she desperately wanted: a 15-month suspension of her license to practice medicine in the UK. Aladwan had become something of the poster child for Britain's crisis of anti-Semitism in medicine, reveling in her growing…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (303+ words) A great benefit of visiting Israel, as I am now, is the immediate ability it confers on you to judge the validity of whatever particular narrative is, at that moment, capturing the attention of foreign audiences. Being in Jerusalem during…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (263+ words) I don't know if anybody who espoused such theories really believed them, but the crux of one of the most infamous periods of Western anti-Semitism was justified by its practitioners as being for the Jews' own good. A century later,…...