
Increasing in Joy
What will we make of joy this year? And what will joy make of us?
Matthew Schultz is the author of the essay collection “What Came Before” (2020). He is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts.


Hamas didn’t invent Shabbaticide. It has long been practiced by Israel’s enemies.

“Total victory” is not the same thing as surrender. Neither is being “no longer capable” of attack.

The danger isn’t that AI will learn how to think; it’s that humans will forget how.

More than any other president, Biden embodied this shamefaced Liberal Zionism.

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.

An American left that embraces vigilante executions is a political movement that has abandoned any pretenses of caring about democracy.

In short, Israel has been attacked by UNRWA, failed by UNIFIL, and now charged with war crimes by the ICC.


No history of the conflict is complete without mentioning the War of Independence.