2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (88+ words) To Begin the World Over Again'The Atlantic Common Sense was a provocation in 1776. Maybe it's the provocation we need now. Reading it now, Paines words are a kind of portal back to the Revolutionary moment. Although Common Sense is an…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1459+ words) The Holiday Traditions of a Nation Long Dead'The Atlantic Every year in late December, my childhood home transformed into a vision of American bliss. We'd gather to ornament a tree, drape string lights around the house, and sit down to…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago  (144+ words) After the Bondi Beach attack, the only effective response is the zealous prosecution of anyone who planned or supported it. After the Bondi Beach attack, the only effective response is the zealous prosecution of anyone who planned or supported it....

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (595+ words) Australians must stand with our Jewish community. Bondi Beach is Australia's playground, our piazza, and the mother church of our national religion: the worship of sun, sand, and salt water. Bondi is where millions of us learn to swim, to…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (475+ words) A Hanukkah massacre of Australian Jews It's long past time to stop saying "Anti-Semitic violence has no place in our society." Outrage upon outrage confirms that anti-Semitic violence has a large and expanding place in Western societies'that it is supported…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (867+ words) All hate crimes are reprehensible. Supporters of the Palestinian cause should recognize that attacks against Jews are also highly damaging to their movement. That's true even though such attacks are ... Two years after Hamas's attack on southern Israel, anti-Semitic violence…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (178+ words) I'm just a cultural Jew," I would tell people, knowing nothing about Jewish culture. Shira Telushkin: The new American Judaism Jonathan Chait: The pro-Israel right is shifting the definition of anti-Semitism My former Jewish identity was, in many ways, the…...

6+ mon, 1+ day ago  (622+ words) The movement for Jewish settlement of Palestine resembles other nationalisms of its era. One summer in Brooklyn, a controversy broke out in a dog-park group chat I was a part of. Dedicated to the upkeep of the park and welfare…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (84+ words) The Ivy League's problems are southern schools' opportunity. Jewish college students are going south. Rose Horowitch: The elite-university presidents who despise one another Franklin Foer: The golden age of American Jews is ending Franklin Foer: Can this man save Harvard?...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (343+ words) This 19th-century Persian offshoot from Islam has deep, humanistic teachings we can all benefit from. In my case, I can resort to a branch of human knowledge that parallels social science and philosophy and is a true laboratory of human…...