October 7
A Senior Saudi Political Figure Takes the Palestinian Leadership to Task
Missed opportunities.
Hizballah’s Money Laundering Has Contaminated Lebanon’s Entire Financial System
A global criminal network.
In Israel, the Ultra-Orthodox Face Their Own Coronavirus Battle
Troubled and frustrated by their own communities’ behavior.
How Medieval Jewish Scholars Made Socrates into a Pious Monotheist
While others saw him as a skeptic.
What a Blood Libel on the Saint Lawrence River Reveals about American Exceptionalism
The exception that proves the rule.
October 6
The Era of Jihadist Insurgencies Is Over
Twenty years after the second intifada began, the states have returned.
No, U.S. Pressure on Iran Hasn’t Risked Starting a War
The ayatollahs want to keep conflict in the “gray zone.”
What Natan Sharansky Gets Wrong about David and Isaiah, and Right about the Jewish Predicament
A false dichotomy between the particularist king and the universalist prophet nevertheless discloses a truth about its author.
The Crisis of the Family, Not Social Distancing, Is Making Americans Lonely
Exacerbating the loneliness gap.
The Israeli Band Bringing Ancient Hebrew Poetry to the World
How Yamma made Psalm 104 a runaway hit.
October 5
Israel’s New Peace Treaties Reveal How Much the Experts Misunderstood the Middle East
The naysayers are wrong.
What the Azerbaijan-Armenia Conflict Might Mean for Israel, Iran, and the Middle East
Bad for Jerusalem, worse for Tehran?
A Memoir of the Gulag Explores the Baleful Consequences of Soviet Tyranny for the Jews—and for Russia
When Jews preferred Nazi ghettos to Soviet equality of rights.