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Things Worth Remembering: ‘Good Night, World’
Jacob Glatstein’s 1938 poem ‘Good Night, World’ reads today as a warning and a responsibility: Night for the Jews is night for the values a free society…
Ruth R. Wisse
What I Learned on Bondi Beach
Survival does not always come with answers. It does, however, come with responsibilities.
Arsen Ostrovsky
I’m Christian. My Wife Is Jewish. Our Marriage Is an Act of Faith.
As the editor of a religious journal, I spend my days contemplating theological differences and the meaning of belief. But it was my marriage to a…
R. R. Reno
Two Prophets of American Faith
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Abraham Joshua Heschel were from different centuries and traditions. They both speak clearly to our dispirited world.
David Wolpe
The Great American Religious Attic
American religious pluralism cannot be reduced to law or theory. It is a lived historical reality that has defined the nation from its earliest days.
Matthew Walther
The Maccabees of the American Revolution
The ancient Hanukkah story of Jewish resistance to tyranny echoes in a later one: that of the Jewish patriots who fought for American independence.
Roya Hakakian
Jews Are Being Sent Back Into Hiding
From France to Australia to New York to Amsterdam, attacks on Jews are part of a purposive campaign: to make them think twice about gathering with each…
David Wolpe and Deborah Lipstadt
The Hunting of Jews at Bondi Beach
The Bondi massacre was not random violence but fascist barbarism—an act of antisemitic hatred long incubated by denial and cowardice.
Brendan O’Neill
Things Worth Remembering: How to Ask Timeless Questions
When I first read I.B. Singer’s ‘Gimpel the Fool,’ I felt a door swing open—into faith, doubt, and a kind of storytelling I didn’t know was possible.
Joseph Epstein
Tucker Carlson Is Wrong About Christian Zionism
From Puritan settlers to modern evangelicals, American Christians have long believed in a Jewish state—and their influence has shaped religion and…
Samuel Goldman
Why Antisemitism Is ‘Moral Pornography’
Like pornography, antisemitism circulates on the web and delivers illicit thrills to degraded users. Christians must lead the fight against it.
Mary Eberstadt
Two Drinks with. . . the Creator of ‘Nobody Wants This’
‘I’m really just trying to be a stay-at-home mom, but nobody will let me do it,’ said Erin Foster—a few days before her smash-hit rom-com returned to…
Suzy Weiss
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