Judaism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Real Civil Rights Issue of Our Time
In his new memoir, former attorney general William P. Barr defends religious liberty as the most pressing…
The Music of the Season
The Pennsylvania state lottery has, as its spokesperson, a talking groundhog. This supersized rodent shows up with…
What Middle Eastern Christians Want
The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets by janine…
Looking Back to Think Forward
History is a great teacher. And lately I’ve been absorbed by three late 15th- and early 16th-century…
Mere Judaism
Judaism Straight Up:Why Real Religion Enduresby moshe koppel maggid books, 218 pages, $24.95 Seventy years ago, the…
The Power of Public Policy
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Oren Cass…
A Failed Experiment in Methodist Unity
After just fifty years, the experiment in Methodist unity that is the United Methodist Church is coming…
Bitterness and Hope at Chanukah
A column about Jewish things. Chanukah is Judaism at its least demanding and most comfortable. We light…
Dignity in Flames
The flames of the Hanukkah candles symbolize both enchantment and futility in a way that speaks to…
On Supersessionism
You brood of vipers,” excoriates John the Baptist in what may well be the most politically incorrect…
Trying Abraham
A biweekly column about Jewish things. No one was tested more harshly than Abraham. His second most…
Does Natural Law Need Theology?
Until quite recently, natural law thinking had been a Catholic preserve. My interest in it was awakened…
Balm for Germany?
A biweekly column about Jewish things. As a Jewish child, I was taught to accept Holocaust survivors’…
Israel’s Political Mythology
Israel may be the land of the Hebrew Bible, but few expected the leader of Israel’s Arab…
We Are All Children
A biweekly column about Jewish things. “. . . that memory may their deed redeem when, like…