A new permutation of the oldest hatred manifested itself yesterday in Pittsburgh.

The story of Purim begins with a debauched, bloody-minded despot and ends with a triumph of solidarity. A tale of Persia in the time of the Second Temple, it resonates today.

As Trump’s election and its aftermath show, Jews still play a role in the passion plays of others.

Michael Walzer struggles to explain the failure of secular liberation movements to overcome the religious cultures of the liberated.

Religion and politics are never far apart in the Promised Land, but a new intra-religious civil war with a characteristically Israeli mix of high-octane ideology and gutter-level politicking has lately been grabbing the headlines. Unseemly as the whole thing is, the conflict has at least one virtue: It is laying some fundamental questions of commitment […]