James Kirchick
James Kirchick is a contributing editor at The New Republic and a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
London Jews’ Labour Problem
Ken Livingstone, the once and perhaps future London mayor, has made a string of anti-Semitic remarks. Why do his party’s leaders indulge him?
Meet Europe’s New Fascists
Hungary’s far-right activists used to rally in the streets. Now they’re in parliament, where their party, Jobbik, is stoking hatred of Jews and Roma.
The Audacity of Breitbart
Andrew Breitbart, the conservative web entrepreneur who died today, was perceived by many as a jester. He also revolutionized the media landscape.
Advocate
Norman Eisen, an old friend of Obama’s from Harvard Law School, is bolstering the forces of liberalism as ambassador to the Czech Republic
Caucus
With the release of an Israeli arrested on bogus charges in the Republic of Georgia, the two U.S. allies can get back to building a close relationship
The Happy Warrior
My memories of Christopher Hitchens
Pink Eye
Critics of Israel say the state touts its gay-rights record only to conceal its oppression of Palestinians. They call it pinkwashing. That’s nonsense.
Right of Return
As Qaddafi falters, representatives of Libya’s expatriate Jewish community are on a quixotic quest to become part of the country’s new government
The Lives of Others
Hungary has made a hard turn to the political right, but Holocaust survivor Karl Pfeifer, who in three decades of journalism has assailed Hungarian communists and Austrian fascists, refuses to let anti-Semitism return unchecked
No Haven
When Yale shuttered its Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism last month, critics saw anti-Israel political correctness. But the project may simply have been a casualty of the university’s global ambitions.
Home Stand
Tajikistan was home to thousands of Bukharan Jews, and conditions seemed right for it to stay that way. But the legacy of Soviet persecution and recent Central Asian ties to Iran have made Jewish life more difficult to maintain.
Another Israel
Kurds and Jews share a similar history and a common enemy
Satellite of Hate
In Kyrgyzstan, anti-Semitism erupts in the wake of the president’s ouster
Unorthodox Position
Meet Washington’s gay-friendly Orthodox rabbi
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Ben-Gurion
The Eichmann Trial
Sacred Trash
The End of the Jewish Left
Political theorist Michael Walzer and others argue about the death of the century-long Jewish-Leftist alliance
Unmolested
An accused pedophile from ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn has never faced trial, thanks in part to a D.A. who had political reasons not to pursue the case
Greased, Frightening
John Travolta’s massages, ‘homosexual Jewish men’ in Hollywood, and the true nature of prejudice
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- What if a famous Jew intermarried, and nobody noticed? (cough, Mark Zuckerberg) http://t.co/zO5zo3P8
Voices Raised for Jerusalem
The Zamir Chorale brings its Jewish choral music to Jazz at Lincoln Center in celebration of Yom Yerushalayim
Old Jews Telling More Jokes
The web series ‘Old Jews Telling Jokes’ goes off-Broadway, with shtick, songs, and a script by writer Daniel Okrent
The Most Perfect Hebrew Bible
The medieval Aleppo Codex was safeguarded for centuries in Syria. The problems started when it arrived in Israel.
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Stay Out of It
By Hillel Y. Levin — On same-sex marriage, Orthodox Jews should keep the religious and civil separate—as they do on other issuesThe End of the Jewish Left
By Adam Kirsch — Political theorist Michael Walzer and others argue about the death of the century-long Jewish-Leftist allianceThe Treblinka Gold Rush
By Jan T. Gross — After World War II, Polish peasants hunted for jewels and gold amid the human remains at former Nazi death campsWorry Like a Jewish Mother
By Marjorie Ingall — Simple guidelines for making moms neurotic, from Marge Simpson’s favorite magazine, Fretful MotherRallying Against the Internet
By Micah Stein — A sold-out event at New York’s Citi Field aims to unite the ultra-Orthodox world against online ‘evils’




