By Tamara Cofman Wittes The United States needs to accept that the days of one-man rule are gone forever. Three years after the hopeful scenes of the Arab Spring, the situation in places like Syria and Libya looks more like a tragic mess. The most dramatic reversal of...
By Marshall Breger How can the Palestinians recognize a Jewish state if Israelis don’t know what that means? In 1958, David Ben-Gurion wrote to 47 leading Jewish intellectuals—or, as he phrased it, “Sages of Israel”—asking for their understanding of the relationship between Jewish and national identity. The...
By Mark Oppenheimer // Fewer and fewer American religious groups practice endogamy today....
By Naomi Ragen // Several high-profile Israeli rabbis have come under fire for less-than-holy schemes. ...
And why we haven’t heard the last of Ted Cruz and other anti-government conservatives. // By Sarah Posner...
Syria is a perfect example of how this 1990s concept has fallen out of favor // By Ben Cohen...
A political “big tent” would be better for Washington, DC's Theater J and everyone else. // By Marshall Breger...
Some New York politicians bend over backwards to accommodate Hasidic demands....
Since the recent elections, new laws are changing Israeli society for better and worse....