Hakham Tsevi’s responsa about golems hit home in the age of ChatGPT
The modern alliance between bourgeois progressivism and political violence was born in 19th-century Russia. It didn’t end well.
How did a near-anonymous Torah scholar become the ‘mentor and teacher’—and in some senses the co-author—of the writer S.Y. Agnon? And why did Agnon omit his name from the title page of ‘Days of Awe’?
How G.K. Chesterton and Jacques Maritain led the Catholic Church to reject the myth of Jewish wandering and recognize the Jewish state
A new narrative for the coronation of Sabbatai Zevi
Tracing the story of money, and its effects on people, in wartime Lodz
American Jews, the PLO, and the CIA
The cultured French wife of one of the H-bomb’s fathers, Stanislaw Ulam, had her own secrets to keep
The 19th-century pioneer of printing in Palestine didn’t have an easy life. But his role in the development of Hebrew-language culture was enormous.
Surprising numbers came from Germany and the United States
In 1800, Sampson Simson delivered a history lesson in Hebrew about the deep-rootedness of New York City’s Jews to the trustees of Columbia College
Israel’s Supreme Court relies on the discredited theories of the Nazi jurist Carl Schmidt to justify its extra-democratic rule
How U.S. establishment ‘wise man’ John J. McCloy freed some of Nazi Germany’s most culpable mass murderers
European Orthodoxy faces the Holocaust
The incitement of tribal hatreds and historical grievances under the cover of Marxist-Leninist language led to the destruction of the multiethnic nation-state of Yugoslavia and the genocide of Bosnian Muslims. The parallels to American wokeism are hard to ignore.
Isadore Twersky vs. Leo Strauss, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Moshe Halbertal, and the faculty of Harvard University
A famous debate between the 20th-century Jewish historians Salo Baron, Yitzhak Baer, and Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi eerily prefigures the current rise of political antisemitism in America
Moyshe Littauer introduces urban Jews to nature, and the world to Jews in their natural state
