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Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. Has support for Israel become a partisan issue in the United States? What role can a commitment to Jewish culture play in…

No ideology is as universally condemned in the United States as Nazism. It is the most potent symbol of evil in America, and Jews are its most identifiable victims. Yet, writes Ruth Wisse, the exclusive identification of anti-Semitism…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. Civil war in Syria, the rise of Islamic State, a strengthened Iran—these are a part of the Obama Administration’s Middle East legacy. Elected…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. On September 5, 2007, just before midnight, four F-15s and four F-16s took off from Israeli Air Force (IAF) bases and flew…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. “The proper method for the study of politics,” said the late political scientist Walter Berns, “is biography.” And while analysis and disquisition…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. America is in the throes of an addiction crisis. The ravages of the opioid epidemic can be seen across the country, as…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. When Ellen Willis’s brother Michael decided to leave behind his secular American life and study in an Orthodox yeshiva in Jerusalem, she…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. When Jews raise their glasses in celebration, they toast “l’chaim!” “to life!” Judaism’s belief in the inherent value of our time in…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. Soldier, statesman, Nobel Prize-winning author—Sir Winston Churchill was one of the most important figures of the 20th century. His judgment was vindicated…

“All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?” So mused Mark Twain in the nineteenth century. One such “secret” surely resides in the immortal language that the Jewish people kept alive—and…

The establishment of the State of Israel is one of the most remarkable achievements of the modern era. Never before had a people dispersed throughout the world, deprived of sovereignty for millennia, returned to its ancient homeland to…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. On September 13, 1993, at a historic ceremony on the White House lawn, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, chairman…