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Mihran Kalaydjian

Aug 12, 2026, 10:00 AM

The West Bank Map That Was Never Supposed to Last

More than 30 years after Oslo, Israelis and Palestinians are still living inside a map that was supposed to disappear. Open almost any political map of the West Bank and three letters dominate the landscape: A, B and C. They...

Jaclyn S. Clark

Aug 10, 2026, 7:54 AM

A Door Is Not a Red Carpet. At the Met, It Isn’t Even a Metaphor.

Judaism says he can come back. It never said we have to throw him a party. Every first Monday in May, my group chat becomes a panel of unpaid fashion critics. We rank the dresses. We screenshot the disasters. We...

Peter Samuelson

Aug 8, 2026, 12:54 AM

When Silence Is Safer Than Speaking

As a Hollywood producer, I've spent much of my career around artists, actors, musicians, and storytellers. One thing I've learned is that there are moments when speaking up comes at a cost. Publicists advise caution, studios worry about backlash,...

David-Seth Kirshner

Aug 5, 2026, 4:35 PM

A Stolen Playbook

In the world of politics, strategists prefer tried-and-true methods. They rarely dive into the unknown – unless someone else was bold and wild enough to try it with success. Then any party is happy to co-opt that strategy and...

Heather Cathleen Cox

Aug 5, 2026, 6:03 AM

Beside the Brays: Houstonian Antisemitism and the Friction of Fortification

The exterior perimeter of Houston’s Congregation Beth Israel campus, which houses The Shlenker School. Synagogues and Jewish day schools nationwide have reinforced their street-facing entryways to enhance community safety. (Photo: Google Earth via Street View screenshot)

The Houston humidity smothers. In late April, the Texas air already carries a heavy, wet weight that settles into your clothes. Spring here doesn't blow in; it seeps out of the bayou, a damp, heavy mist that slows your...

Marina Rosenberg

Aug 1, 2026, 9:57 AM

Antisemitism is now the baseline, not a spike

On the last night of Hanukkah, a gunman opened fire on a candle-lighting celebration on Bondi Beach, killing Rabbi Eli Schlanger and fourteen others. I had been in Sydney just a week earlier for the first-ever J7 Task Force Against Antisemitism Summit...

Kenneth Jacobson

Jul 28, 2026, 4:09 AM

Antisemitism in America and How We Got Here

For years, experts talked about the success of Jewish life in America, particularly in comparison to the long, sorry history of Jews in the diaspora. At the same time, there were some who noted that things weren't all that great and linked...

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

Jul 21, 2026, 6:32 PM

Every Flag But One

For a few weeks every four years, people across borders, languages and faiths organize their lives around the same 90 minutes. We see strangers embrace over a goal. Flags of nations thousands of miles apart wave side by side...

Jul 16, 2026, 5:03 AM

They Stamped Every Neighborhood But Ours

There is a particular loneliness in being counted only when someone is counting victims, and forgotten every other day of the year. This summer, as the World Cup came to New York, the City handed out a “Neighborhood Passport,”...

Jul 10, 2026, 8:42 AM

Treasure Trove: Alfred Dreyfus, Toronto and Elaine from Seinfeld

From the Herzl and Zionsim Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by David Matlow.

In 2025, France declared that July 12 will be the national day of commemoration for Alfred Dreyfus. The first such day is in 2026, which is the 120th anniversary of the day that France’s highest appeals court recognized Dreyfus’...

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