Ben Hecht invented the gangster movie. He also prodded Roosevelt into saving thousands of Jews from the Nazis, and marshaled reluctant American Jews into becoming Zionists.
The much-documented anti-Semitism of the British Labor party leader is no accident.
Smiling at my visible distress, my neighbor said he was surprised: did I really not know what was going on to Jews around us? But it’s our responsibility to stay.
Israel’s actions in the recent Gaza flare-up show just how valuable self-correction can be. On every dimension, its performance was at least slightly improved.
I once thought it possible to address the world’s turn against Israel without bringing in anti-Semitism. No longer.
The middle of the 20th century inaugurated a time when American Jewish sons stopped being able to imagine themselves as Jewish fathers—and we’re still living in it.
Not only strikingly beautiful, his painting of Moses holding the Ten Commandments also happens to be one of the most authentically Jewish works of art ever created.
There’s talk of the new American administration moving closer to Iran. Could a Saudi step toward peace with Israel protect Riyadh from the troubles that might ensue?
The powers at the center of the Muslim world are refusing to tolerate radical Islamism, and a spirit of repair and renewal is at hand. Will it catch on?
The 400-year-old translation is denigrated because of its archaic language. That’s one of its greatest strengths.
If you don’t know what it means, you can probably figure it out. (Or you can read this column.)
Friends, but never close, our paths intersected and then diverged, until this past September, when I connected with Leonard for the last time.
An open letter to fellow students who want to write about Israel and anti-Semitism.
More than most, Modern Orthodoxy is a movement constantly ensnared by ideological disputes. Here’s how it can survive.
