Why Tom Friedman is wrong — dangerously wrong — about Israel
“To understand the political drama playing out in Israel,” Friedman says. “You don’t need to speak Hebrew.” Umm, no.
Why the latest White House ceremony is delighting Jewish scholars and librarians
Dr. Eric Lander, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, took his oath on a copy of the ‘Pirkei Avot’ from 1492.
Behind Tucker Carlson’s white replacement rhetoric, a frightening antisemitic history
Carlson’s “grand replacement” comments have roots in both a 2011 French book and in Nazi ideology.
We need to talk about ‘Kike’ — how did the slur originate anyway?
Did the term come from Ellis Island? From the United Kingdom? Or did Jews themselves originally coin it? The answer is complicated.
On the delights of discovering a truly ‘essential’ Jewish book
Even after his mother and newborn son were murdered by the Nazis, Avrom Sutzkever relentlessly fought the attempt to kill Jews and Jewish culture.
Trump’s impeachment lawyers are at war with language itself
The Trump team’s attack on journalists represents an all-out attempt to replace truth with lies.
An impeachment with the power to cleanse and restore
One tiny little dot in the Hebrew word for “impeach” carries great significance and food for thought.
What this week’s Torah portion says about Marjorie Taylor Greene
“You shall not steal; you shall not deal deceitfully or falsely with one another.”
Why Israel’s multilingual approach to vaccination works — and why our monolingual one doesn’t
The multilingual and multicultural approach is the opposite of what’s happening in America where crucial segments of the population are left out.
How the Capitol riots changed the way we talk about insurrection
Five linguistic themes have emerged from the attack on the Capitol that left five dead and many more wounded.