Gary Shteyngart Takes On The Trump Era (Again)
“The secret of Warren Buffett is that he is the dullest man in America: how do you write a novel about that?”
The OU Should Stick To Kosher Laws - Or Become Treif
The OU is a hybrid organization. It is an Orthodox rabbinical organization which serves Orthodox congregations, and it is a kashrut supervision agency
Sadly, The Ku Klux Klan Was A Lot More Mainstream Than You Think
The KKK of the 1920s was quite a bit like today’s “alt-right.” Ultra-modern, it embraced he new technological and cultural forms of the day.
Netanyahu’s Hatred Of Soros Is A Rejection Of Diaspora Jews
Soros embodies a Diasporic Jewish archetype that right-wing Zionism has defined itself against: the cosmopolitan financier, the wandering Jew.
Why We Liberal Zionists Need BDS - Even If We Oppose It
The center-left needs to think carefully about its relation to the radical left, if we are to have any chance of ending the occupation.
How Hobby Lobby Appropriates Jewish Culture To Shill For Christ
The story of the Greens is a cautionary tale about big money attempting to muscle an intellectual culture into submission and also a slapstick comedy.
No, Cornel West Is Not An Anti-Semite
There’s something intellectually perverse in a white American Jew reading this West piece and asking, “How does this offend me?”
Why Princeton Hillel Was Right To Disinvite Israeli Official
The spectacle of left-wing students forcing a Hillel to cancel a speaker wonderfully inverts a familiar routine.
No, that Alan Dershowitz cartoon wasn’t anti-Semitic
Alan Dershowitz was depicted in a cartoon with blood and Palestinians. Was it anti-Semitic? Was it a blood libel?
Long, Long Ago in a Jewish Fantasyland Far, Far Away
Emily Barton’s ‘Book of Esther’ journeys to the medieval kingdom of Khazaria — but even there, Jews can’t escape the rush to modernize.
