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People keep saying that democracy is in danger because we have lost seriousness. That diagnosis is too flattering. It suggests that what stands between a society and barbarism is mainly a matter of tone: less irony, more sincerity; less…

Lithuania is prosecuting Artur Fridman for what he said about partisans. That is the simplest way to state the issue, and it is already damning.

I oppose the exculpation of Soviet crimes. I oppose the exculpation of Nazi crimes. I oppose the…

History Cannot Be Rewritten Into Existence

There is a difference between interpretation and fabrication. That line is being crossed with increasing boldness in the discourse surrounding Israel. What we are witnessing is not a healthy debate…

Lithuania, Poland, and Congress (Part 1)

Lithuania has now stated, in plain language, the rule that condemns its own commemorative system: once disqualifying facts are revealed about an honored figure, public authorities are obliged to remove…

Ask any parent of a four-year-old with amblyopia about the eye patch, and you will hear the same story. Tears at breakfast. The patch ripped off at kindergarten. A bin full of adhesive strips that never lasted the prescribed two hours. For…

Edna Adan Ismail is a distinguished healthcare professional, diplomat, and human rights advocate from Somaliland whose work has reshaped maternal health systems while advancing the international visibility of an unrecognized state. Widely…

Clark University’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies is renowned worldwide for its distinguished doctoral programs and scholarship on mass atrocities. That reputation makes it all the more troubling that since Hamas’s…

What makes the seder like a pregnancy? When we are in the dark middle of the story, we must remember the future.

Imagine being the Israelites gathered together in our slave quarters on the original night of Passover. Until now, we have not…

In Parsha Tzav, as we study the detailed laws of the Asham (guilt) and chatat (sin) offerings performed on the altar in the Mishkan and later in the Beit HaMikdash, we are invited to consider the relationship between two core teachings in…

For Israel to settle Lebanon is to further destroy any hope we can hold for peace. Prospects for peace are now little more than fanciful as we stare down a religious war between Judaism, together with its Christian backers, and Islam. If we…