What American Jews Don’t Want to Know (but Need to)

How Israel’s supreme court has effected its own constitutional revolution—and thereby undermined public confidence in the rule of law.

After decades of almost no interaction, relations between the two nations grow increasingly warmer and closer. There’s plenty of good news—and, for Israel, plenty of risk.

Vibrant Jewish communities were reborn in Europe after the Holocaust. Is there a future for them in the 21st century?

As the sound of “Death to the Jews!” filled the streets this summer, much of the French elite averted its gaze or blamed the Jews for their own misfortune. Do Jews still have a future in France?

In play again are bitterly contested questions about the Catholic Church, about religion and politics, and—inevitably—about Christianity’s relation to Judaism and the Jews.

In Iran’s nuclear program, Israel faces a threat like never before. Can a divided nation pull together in time to confront it?

Modern medicine, psychology, and behavioral science can help some addicts. But for the underlying spiritual condition, an older set of tools—like Judaism’s—has more to offer.

The culture wars have come to the Modern Orthodox movement. Is a schism on the horizon?

The policies of the Obama administration led to carnage in Syria, regional chaos, and the rise of Iran and its alliance with Russia. Can the momentum be reversed—without going to war?

Cracks are increasingly discernible in the famous “special relationship.” Can they be repaired? If not, could Israel’s national security survive the loss of American military aid?

The unresolved rivalry between the great Zionist thinker and the great Zionist strategist still shapes the contending outlooks of many 21st-century Jews.

In his celebrated new book, Ari Shavit claims that “Zionism” committed a massacre in July 1948. Can the claim withstand scrutiny?

As Jewish experience would suggest, a dichotomy embedded in the U.S. system distorts reality and makes for damaging policy.