Judaism

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Real Civil Rights Issue of Our Time

Josh Holdenried

In his new memoir, former attorney general William P. Barr defends religious liberty as the most pressing…

The Music of the Season

Francis X. Maier

The Pennsylvania state lottery has, as its spokesperson, a talking groundhog. This supersized rodent shows up with…

What Middle Eastern Christians Want

Luma Simms

The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets by janine…

Looking Back to Think Forward

Francis X. Maier

History is a great teacher. And lately I’ve been absorbed by three late 15th- and early 16th-century…

Mere Judaism

Mark Gottlieb

Judaism Straight Up:Why Real Religion Enduresby moshe koppel maggid books, 218 pages, $24.95 Seventy years ago, the…

The Power of Public Policy

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Oren Cass…

A Failed Experiment in Methodist Unity

Dale M. Coulter

After just fifty years, the experiment in Methodist unity that is the United Methodist Church is coming…

Bitterness and Hope at Chanukah

Cole S. Aronson

A column about Jewish things. Chanukah is Judaism at its least demanding and most comfortable. We light…

Dignity in Flames

Dov Lerner

The flames of the Hanukkah candles symbolize both enchantment and futility in a way that speaks to…

On Supersessionism

Hans Boersma

You brood of vipers,” excoriates John the Baptist in what may well be the most politically incorrect…

Trying Abraham

Cole S. Aronson

A biweekly column about Jewish things. No one was tested more harshly than Abraham. His second most…

Does Natural Law Need Theology?

David Novak

Until quite recently, natural law thinking had been a Catholic preserve. My interest in it was awakened…

Balm for Germany?

Cole S. Aronson

A biweekly column about Jewish things. As a Jewish child, I was taught to accept Holocaust survivors’…

Israel’s Political Mythology

Ari Lamm

Israel may be the land of the Hebrew Bible, but few expected the leader of Israel’s Arab…

We Are All Children

Cole S. Aronson

A biweekly column about Jewish things. “. . . that memory may their deed redeem when, like…