The incitement of tribal hatreds and historical grievances under the cover of Marxist-Leninist language led to the destruction of the multiethnic nation-state of Yugoslavia and the genocide of Bosnian Muslims. The parallels to American wokeism are hard to ignore.
Isadore Twersky vs. Leo Strauss, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Moshe Halbertal, and the faculty of Harvard University
A famous debate between the 20th-century Jewish historians Salo Baron, Yitzhak Baer, and Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi eerily prefigures the current rise of political antisemitism in America
Moyshe Littauer introduces urban Jews to nature, and the world to Jews in their natural state
On the prayer recited for IDF soldiers
The ultimate aims of the war against the Jewish state would rival the worst horrors of our history
One man’s role in the shaping of the nation’s best-loved and most spectacular long-distance footpath reminds us of the close, if often disregarded, bonds that Jews have formed with the North American landscape
In 1959, swastikas began appearing all over the world. What does the last resurgence of this symbol of Jewish hatred tell us about the current one?
New historical discoveries cast light on the Vatican’s response to the Holocaust
A brutal massacre nearly a century ago in Judaism’s second-holiest city makes clear that murderous Palestinian rage against Jews has little to do with Israel or Zionism
For decades, the DSA and its predecessors, and socialist leaders like Michael Harrington and Bayard Rustin, championed the Jewish state and defended Jews on campus. In 2017, the DSA embraced Jew-hatred.
Remembering Mrs. Els Salomon-Prins Bendheim
Jewish martyrology from medieval Germany
Who perpetrated the Lviv pogrom of July 1941?
The status of stories in Sefer Hasidim, one of the most reprinted Jewish books
Suspected of orchestrating the Lincoln assassination, the South’s most prominent Jew escaped to London to start a new life as a high-powered lawyer. The U.S. government secretly tried to bring him home to face justice.
Tracking the descendants of America’s early Sephardic elite, from WASP blue bloods to the great-great-grandchildren of slaves
Ruth Blau’s shocking, true-life journey from Catholicism to the top of the ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta—and from the French Resistance to facing off against the Mossad
