The Future of Hope
March 12, 2025
A report from the annual “Never Is Now” conference in New York City.
Karen Lehrman Bloch
Karen Lehrman Bloch is a cultural critic; author of The Lipstick Proviso: Women, Sex & Power in the Real World (Doubleday) and The Inspired Home: Interiors of Deep Beauty (Harper Design); Editor of International Political Affairs at The Weekly Blitz; and curator of the book and exhibition Passage to Israel (Skyhorse).
The Era of Great Pretenders
February 5, 2025
Through social media, an academy that no longer cares about facts, and a media that no longer cares about truth, we now have a deluge of various types pretending to be something they’re not.
The Other Barbarians
January 27, 2025
Opening in New York City on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which this year is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, it’s the first full-scale replica of Anne Frank’s Annex.
The Promise of Israel
January 23, 2025
The first English-language opera about Herzl, “State of the Jews,” premiered at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center last week.
Fighting for the Soul of America
December 19, 2024
By building a community devoted to the Jewish people, the nation of Israel and the American project, Tikvah aims to revive the soul of America. That theme was on full display at its 7th annual Jewish Leadership Conference in New York.
What Starts in Europe
December 12, 2024
Bret Stephens was in dialogue with ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, focused on the fact that the war in Gaza has been merely an excuse for the global surge in violent, normalized antisemitism.
Douglas Murray vs. ‘Influencers’
November 27, 2024
Not a week has gone by this fall when British intellectual and Israel and Western advocate Douglas Murray hasn’t been in the news.
And There Was Light
November 20, 2024
The Second Jewish Media Awards were held at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York City last week.
The Light Within
October 9, 2024
“Why do they hate us? Because they cannot see our light. Nor can they extinguish it.”
Academic Repentance
September 26, 2024
The only chance our university system has for redemption is a full return to the ethical principles that make education possible.
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