Confusing Haman and Mordechai
March 12, 2025
In life, it is rare to find anyone as purely righteous as Mordechai or as purely wicked as Haman — though there are exceptions.
Matthew Schultz
Matthew Schultz is the author of the essay collection “What Came Before” (2020). He is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts.
Shabbaticide: Hamas’ Deliberate Campaign to Desecrate the Sabbath
February 18, 2025
Hamas didn’t invent Shabbaticide. It has long been practiced by Israel’s enemies.
The Missing White Flag
February 12, 2025
“Total victory” is not the same thing as surrender. Neither is being “no longer capable” of attack.
What Is AI Thinking?
February 5, 2025
The danger isn’t that AI will learn how to think; it’s that humans will forget how.
The Unraveling of Liberal Zionism
January 22, 2025
More than any other president, Biden embodied this shamefaced Liberal Zionism.
Where Is God?
January 1, 2025
In his new book, ‘The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism,’ Rabbi Yitz Greenberg revisits the central question posed to us by the Holocaust and Oct. 7.
Brian Thompson, Jews, and the Left’s ‘Legitimate Targets’
December 11, 2024
An American left that embraces vigilante executions is a political movement that has abandoned any pretenses of caring about democracy.
The International Community Has Debased Itself
November 26, 2024
In short, Israel has been attacked by UNRWA, failed by UNIFIL, and now charged with war crimes by the ICC.
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