Cole S. Aronson
After Silence: On Lamentation
The Jewish tradition had responded to horror with speechlessness before, but is that what we need now?
Enlisting Orthodoxy
Cole S. Aronson attended a debate between a Haredi rabbi and a group of religious Zionists. It didn't go well, but was revealing in unexpected ways.
Operation Hebrew Camp
No American Jewish camp nowadays can equal the ebullient Zionism or fidelity to Hebrew that propelled Arzt and Co. into the sky.
Israel’s TikTok Problem
Why has TikTok become a hotbed of anti-Israel and antisemitic content, and what does it tell us about brewing global conflicts.
Black Hats, Green Fatigues
They don't like the Z-word, but new haredi IDF soldiers sound a lot like the old Zionists.
Kibbutz Be’eri, Chaos, and Creation
"Be’eri was not so much assaulted as disemboweled. After the massacre there were corpses everywhere—what is left now is the stuff of lives ripped out."
The Integralists and Us
A Jewish colleague once asked Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule, “In a fully Catholic polity, the sort you would like to bring about, what would happen to me, a Jew”? “Nothing bad,” Vermeule replied. OK, let’s see.
The First Maggid—How Memory Made the Jews
3,500 years ago, Israelite parents explained wonders to their children and created the very first Maggid story.
The Blessings of Manasia
His father recited Modeh Ani every morning and ordered a set of tefillin from Mumbai. Unaware that they were meant to be worn and not merely kept, he put them away on a shelf.
Exodus from Kishinev
From Kishinev, Moldova to Israel with Ukrainian Jewish refugees.
The Court Jew Who Hated Kings
In July 1492, three months after Spain published its edict of expulsion, Abravanel sailed with tens of thousands of other refugee Jews to Italy, where the history of Sephardi Jewry and its most illustrious leader resumed on somewhat friendlier grounds.
Objective Muddles and Persuasive Testimony
It may seem as though a religious tradition like Judaism would have no home in a philosophical ecosystem that cultivates nothing but a specific mode of intellectual engagement. But it is precisely the lack of a positive dogma that makes analytic philosophy compatible with the basic tenets of Judaism—at least that’s the premise of Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age.