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…...

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+ hour, 26+ min ago   (750+ words) Just a few weeks ago, Michigan’s Democrat attorney general, Dana Nessel, addressed a gathering of Michigan Jewish Democrats. Nessel thought she had a winning message to these stunned Dems: Be selfless and virtuous! Even if your worries about danger to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (642+ words) If we take any lesson from the deadly struggles of the 20th century, it is to take our enemy’s ideologies seriously. Hitler’s opponents read their own motivations into him. But Hitler had been perfectly clear years before he seized power. In…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (380+ words) They may not understand that Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the Iranian regime explicitly seek their destruction. Why, then, do a significant minority of Jews adopt political positions that appear contrary to their community’s interests and even survival? We propose…...

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, 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....

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, 1+ week ago   (377+ words) To the uninitiated, Tenebrae looks like some ancient cultish ritual. The liturgy is the sum total of the two morning offices of the Church, Matins and Lauds, and is only sung during Holy Week. In recent years, it’s been possible…...

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…...