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The Atlantic
‘The More I’m Around Young People, the More Panicked I Am’
Anti-Jewish prejudice isn’t a partisan divide—it’s a generational one.
December 15, 2025
The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler
A growing constituency on the right wants America to unlearn the lessons of World War II.
September 3, 2025
Why 70 Percent of Israelis Want Netanyahu to Resign
The Israeli prime minister ignores the views of the majority of his people.
March 13, 2025
Trump Doesn’t Believe Anything. That’s Why He Wins.
Transactionalism is Trump’s secret weapon.
January 9, 2025
The Anti-Semitic Revolution on the American Right
How Jews became collateral damage in a Republican power struggle
September 23, 2024
The New AOC
The progressive congresswoman is no longer speaking solely to the left wing, but to the party as a whole.
August 20, 2024
Who’s Afraid of Josh Shapiro?
The Pennsylvania governor called Benjamin Netanyahu “one of the worst leaders of all time.” But anti-Israel activists don’t want him on the Democratic ticket.
July 31, 2024
The Unlikely World Leader Who Just Dispelled Musk’s Utopian AI Dreams
Benjamin Netanyahu is not buying what the billionaire is selling. He may have a point.
September 22, 2023
A ‘Parade’ of Anti-Semites on Broadway
Anti-Jewish bigots steal the show in the revived musical. And that’s why it works.
March 22, 2023
From This Hill, You Can See the Next Intifada
What happens when Israel’s lawbreakers become lawmakers
February 6, 2023
How Anti-Semitism Shaped the Ivy League as We Know It
America’s most prestigious universities became elite through policies designed to keep Jews out of them.
September 22, 2022
Why Does America Support Israel?
A conversation with historian Walter Russell Mead about misconceptions of Jewish power and the decidedly non-Jewish roots of support for the Jewish state
July 14, 2022
Why So Many People Still Don’t Understand Anti-Semitism
Unlike many other bigotries, anti-Semitism is not merely a social prejudice; it is a conspiracy theory about how the world operates.
January 19, 2022
Yair Lapid’s Vision For a New Israeli Future
The unlikely architect of Israel’s current government wants to unite the country’s Jewish and Arab mainstream against anti-democratic extremists. But will he find enough takers?
December 22, 2021
The Incredible True Story Behind TV’s Strangest Space Jew
An eight-year investigation to explain why a religious Jew appeared in one of contemporary science fiction’s most celebrated shows
November 18, 2021
Tablet Magazine
Remembering Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
(1948-2020)
One of world Jewry’s most influential leaders and communicators passed away over the weekend
November 12, 2020
Why Conspiracy Theorists Like Marjorie Taylor Greene Always Land on the Jews
Once you’ve decided that an invisible hand is behind the world’s problems, it’s only a matter of time before you decide it belongs to an invisible Jew
February 1, 2021
How Do You Say ‘Quidditch’ in Yiddish?
The inside story of how ‘Harry Potter’ was translated into Yiddish.
February 6, 2020
Yair Lapid Wants to Teach Israelis to Understand American Jews. Will He Get the Chance?
The Israeli opposition leader has a very different vision for American and Israeli Jews than the current government.
September 17, 2019
The Truth About Bibi, Israel’s Very Dispensable Man
Why Netanyahu’s case for his reelection fails on its own terms.
September 13, 2019
Chaim Bloom’s Diamond Life
The senior VP of baseball operations for the Tampa Bay Rays explains how his team changed the way the game is played—and why he keeps a jar of gefilte fish in his office.
April 2, 2019
The Mormons on Mount Scopus
How a religious real-estate controversy in Jerusalem brought thousands to the streets in protest, caused a no confidence vote in the Israeli government, and inspired an anti-Mormon Jewish pop song—then was entirely forgotten
May 15, 2015
‘Jeopardy’ for Jews: Who Wants To Be the World’s Next Top Torah Scholar?
Israelis usually win the International Bible Contest. But one year, two young Americans defied the odds in a televised showdown.
May 1, 2014
How Kosher Came to Campus
The great knish controversy erupted at Harvard in the spring of 1992. It began with a toaster oven.
January 22, 2014
Reconciling Modern Biblical Scholarship With Traditional Orthodox Belief
Who wrote the Torah? An unlikely group of Orthodox scholars has launched a website that gets to the heart of the Jewish faith.
September 18, 2013
Cory Booker’s Jewish Story
How the Newark mayor and Senate candidate’s adopted Jewish identity—shaped by his Orthodox mentors—reflects his unique brand of politics
August 12, 2013
Washington Post
Trump couldn’t steal the election. That doesn’t mean warnings were overblown.
As the Hebrew Bible and its interpreters understood, the paradox of foreseeing future dangers is that if people listen to you, the worst is averted and the prophecy is falsified.
November 30, 2020
Trump keeps pushing anti-Semitic stereotypes. But he thinks he’s praising Jews.
As a man who has always stood solely for his own naked self-interest, Trump does not see the anti-Semitic conception of the self-interested Jew as a complaint, but rather a compliment.
August 21, 2019
The Complicated History of Thomas Jefferson’s Koran
How a translation of Islam’s holiest book intended to convert Muslims to Christianity became a potent symbol of Muslim American political ascendance
January 2, 2019
The Pittsburgh Shooter Didn’t Hate ‘Religion,’ He Hated Jews. We Should Say So
Why do many people—from Kellyanne Conway to Jeremy Corbyn—keep erasing Jews from the story of their own murders?
November 2, 2018
Conspiracy Theories About the Rothschilds Are a Symptom. The Problem is Much Deeper
When an anonymous troll of any political persuasion trumpets anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on social media, it is the sign of a broken person.
March 21, 2018
