June 23, 2022 13:42

Only in New York is a Yeshiva not religious

Last week, a judge ruled that Yeshiva University is not a religious institution, but an educational one

June 16, 2022 12:27

Great Jewish thinker Robert D Kaplan saw the anarchy coming. So what makes him an optimist now?

The traveller, strategist and historian says there’s a new realism in the Middle East and the Americans having less prestige is encouraging the regional players to try to deal with their problems in their own right

June 09, 2022 13:41

Biden's Iran dream has collapsed under the weight of reality

If the Iranian regime ever intended to submit to a revived nuclear treaty, they have no incentive to do so now

June 01, 2022 11:38

Americans have always loved righteous violence, and many of them still believe in its healing properties

It is hard not to see a connection between the speed they mobilise for war abroad and their tolerance for military-grade violence at home

May 26, 2022 14:50

A great episode of Jews in the city: The Celebrate Israel parade returns for the first time in three years

Thousands of Jewish pedestrians walked down the middle of New York's Fifth Avenue waving Israeli flags

May 19, 2022 13:34

Meet the Palestine activist who likes playing with fire

When she was still a young law student, Nerdeen Kiswani filmed herself apparently threatening to torch a man’s IDF sweatshirt while he was wearing it

May 12, 2022 13:23

Ed Koch, the Jewish king of New York who had to keep his private life a secret

James Kirchick’s groundbreaking new book lifts the lid on the former Mayor of New York City’s life

May 06, 2022 16:03

Harvard opts for BDS — so take me out to the ball game for tefillin

United? The USA is as divided as ever with its most prestigious university's newspaper backing the boycott movement while a baseball star's father openly practises the Jewish custom

April 28, 2022 15:19

Tolerance is on trial in this furore at New York law school

“Israel is an Apartheid regime”, according to New York University Law School’s branch of Students for Justice in Palestine

April 21, 2022 15:42

When it comes to the crunch... my matzah must come from Leeds

I didn’t want spelt matzah from Streit or Manischewitz..., I want the real thing - a stack of red Rakusen’s

April 14, 2022 16:37

The Satmar shtetl as American as apple pie

Kiryas Joel, rather than being a European hangover, might be the Jewish American future

April 07, 2022 13:16

As her Grammys appearance showed, Doja is the 21st century's Tin Pan Alley cat

My teenage informants tell me that Doja Cat is a skilled crafter of the 'memeable hooks' which helped her “blow up” on TikTok. Her performance last Sunday, was, I’m told, a 'massive bop'

March 31, 2022 13:07

How I fell under Madeleine Albright’s hypnotising spell

Former US Secretary of State was Jewish without realising it for most of her life

March 24, 2022 12:36

The Jews behind America's atomic past

Cold war comedy, a chilling crisis and America's atomic Jews

March 17, 2022 14:18

Puzzling out the Rubik’s Cube of Israel, America and Russia

Israel’s nuanced stance on Russia is out-of-step with Biden’s rhetoric

March 04, 2022 14:34

Now more than ever, it's time to ask 'what would Kissinger do?'

Kissinger would seek to talk with Putin and his ministers directly says Dominic Green