1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (365+ words) Arab Citizens of Israel: How Far Have They Come? By Robert Cherry Wicked Son, 2026, 320 pages, $20 Cherry devotes considerable attention to a subject often overlooked in Western coverage of Israel: the Israeli government’s efforts to improve the economic and social conditions…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (819+ words) A Jewish American, the story goes, asked an Israeli how many Palestinian prisoners the IDF had raped. None that he knew of, he said. “You IDF soldiers don’t rape Palestinians because Israelis are too racist and disgusted by them to…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (300+ words) President Trump’s recent call for American Jews to mark a special national Shabbat in honor of the 250th anniversary of American independence has thrust the Seventh Day into the center of political conversation. To understand Shabbat, however, one must first understand…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (753+ words) All stories are not equal. But we all equally live in stories. Who we are we know by the story we tell ourselves. We spin the points of meaning we meet into a yarn, and the yarn we weave into…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago   (145+ words) This Easter, Catholic dioceses across the country are reporting a strong surge of converts into the Roman Catholic Church. (READ MORE: Easter and the State of Christendom) On this episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast, hosts Ellie Gardey Holmes and Lyrah…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (298+ words) In this fraught moment, this calendar convergence feels like quite a bit more than mere serendipity. It is a visceral reminder of the shared moral and theological inheritance that undergirds Judaism and Christianity — the common foundation that has molded and…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (984+ words) In a real jail-cell interview with another mental health professional, Gustave Gilbert (not portrayed in the film), Goering made clear his mind about what leaders are able to do: Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (183+ words) I have always found this recurring humiliating ritual to be worse than embarrassing. It’s offensive. The core message of Chanukah, then, is one of traditionalism and cultural preservation in the face of menacing and assimilationist forces, both within and without....

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (523+ words) God sent me Dov Fischer. In the end, he didn’t say enough. His writing was cut short at the age of 69. He was so youthful, fresh, and alive. And then gone. It’s taken me months to come to terms with…...

9+ mon, 4+ day ago   (664+ words) Confronted by competition in harmony with the festive season, I see a watchdog pressured to be a crowd-puller in a competitive market. I find stopantisemitism.org relying on a gimmick to fight the hate that was the bane of humankind…...