Don’t accept the myth of ‘Jewish privilege’
For one day at least, Twitter became a forum for some honesty, as opposed to the usual orgy of nastiness and pointless memes. After seeing the hashtag #Jewishprivilege used to spread anti-Semitic smears, a...
Days of Mashiach
A Short Story by Tzvi Fishman
Even before the jumbo jet came to a stop on the runway, Dr. Elliot Miller unfastened his seat belt and jumped up from his seat.
“Where are you going?” his...
American Foreign Policy and Nuclear War: Existential Crisis Management In A Time Of Plague
Abstract: For the moment, Americans devote scant attention to any apparent risks of a nuclear war, but whatever residual attention remains centered on such risks focus on North Korea and Iran. Though concurrent hazards from...
How can Israel help Diaspora Jewry?
At Sunday’s government meeting, Israel’s elected leaders demonstrated their commitment to helping Jewish communities in the Diaspora. The government overwhelmingly approved a plan presented by the Diaspora Affairs Ministry to strengthen the connection between...
The Different Purposes of Our Daily Purposes
A purpose is the place where we are going when we try to finish our little daily tasks, our larger life schemes, and our still larger personal evolution. It is the end point that...
Adventures of a Jubu [Jewish Buddhist]
In December 2001, I was semi-kidnapped by a taxi driver in the state of Karnataka, a remote area in Southeast India. Although scary at the time, it ended being one of many adventures/ stories...
Jews aren’t indigenous to Israel? According to whom?
There are a lot of things wrong with woke culture. While the impulse to demonstrate solidarity with the oppressed and opposition to bad things like racism is, in principle, praiseworthy, the virtue signaling is...
What The U.S. Coronavirus Response Says About American Exceptionalism
Coronavirus cases in Florida, Arizona and South Carolina are increasing faster than in any other country in the world, reigniting the debate over American exceptionalism. Nick Schifrin talks to former Mexican foreign minister Jorge...
America’s Presidential Election is Gravely Necessary, But Insufficient
“The enemy is the unphilosophical spirit which knows nothing and wants to know nothing of truth.” – Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time (1952)
Even in this grievously faltering United States, presidential elections are praised...
Supreme Court decision may drain public schools
“DEFUND PUBLIC SCHOOLS!!!!!!”
The U.S. Supreme Court might as well have issued such a three-word ruling to send its message allowing Montana to spend tax money on religious schools.
The court struck down the state’s Blaine...