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I’ve been listening to an audiobook called The Man Who Stopped the Sultan, a vivid chronicle of the 15th‑century struggles within the various fiefdoms of Western Europe and also with the Ottoman Empire. What resonates most is not merely…

The weekend briefing that looks, at first blush, like dry diplomatic housekeeping is actually a historic indictment of the government: Benjamin Netanyahu’s long refusal to plan for Gaza’s “day after” has been exposed for what it was…

If Europe made itself the future, what followed was not immediate conquest, but something subtler.

When sequence becomes hierarchy, hierarchy begins to normalize replacement.

In the previous column, we saw how a growing strand of European…

This coming Sabbath in the Jewish calendar is known as Shabbat Zachor, the Sabbath of Remembering. It is the Sabbath that precedes the holiday of Purim, which Jews around the world celebrate next week, to remember how they were saved from…

Co-authored by Dr. Guila Benchimol and Dr. Alissa Ackerman

TW; CW: This post discusses sexual violence.

Consuming recent media coverage about sexual abuse is making us unwell. We feel like we have a low-grade illness. We are nauseous. We…

As part of the 37th Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles, I recently watched a film that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about: Eran Riklis’s adaptation of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Set in post-revolutionary Iran, it tells the story…

Trump will start winning again when he stops deferring to the Obama types in his Administration.

The “it’s bad for the U.S. to win outright” people are still around. The people who think — as Obama and Biden indicated obliquely, with…

There is a story in Masechet Brachot about Rabban Gamliel who opened a Yeshiva after being temporarily removed as head of the Sanhedrin.

He had one requirement in order to be accepted as a student in his institution. He said that any student…

שִׁמְעוֹן הַצַּדִּיק הָיָה מִשְּׁיָרֵי כְנֶסֶת הַגְּדוֹלָה. הוּא הָיָה אוֹמֵר, עַל שְׁלשָׁה דְבָרִים הָעוֹלָם עוֹמֵד, עַל…