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Zahava Feldstein

Jun 27, 2026, 5:00 PM

What to the Ashkenazi Jew is the Fourth of July?

I found the name Feldstein only once in a book: at Auschwitz, compiled in the book of the dead.

I am a fourth-generation American, and my ancestors are lost to Jewish history. They authored no books for me to discover; their names are not transcribed among the intellectual Jews of any time. I know, because I keep looking....

Itai Eithan Shamir

Jun 13, 2026, 12:50 AM

Eurovision Song Contest 2026: United By Music, After All

Fans celebrating in the arena at the Eurovision Song Contest Final.

A few weeks have passed since the confetti was swept from the arena floor in Vienna, which hosted the 70th Eurovision Song Contest, the world's biggest live televised music event, drawing more viewers annually than the Super Bowl. Each year,...

Itai Eithan Shamir

Jun 10, 2026, 9:47 PM

Eurovision 2026: United By Music, After All

Fans celebrating in the arena at the Eurovision Song Contest Final.

A few weeks have passed since the confetti was swept from the arena floor in Vienna, which hosted the 70th Eurovision Song Contest — the world’s biggest live televised music event, drawing more viewers annually than the Super Bowl....

Jun 7, 2026, 5:39 PM

The Seal and the River of Time

The Pashupati Seal A 4,300-year-old steatite seal found at Mohenjo-daro. May 27, 2026 (Source Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, X.)

A Meditation on the Pashupati Seal, the Indian Civilizational Continuum, and What Humanity Owes to the Clay’s Memory The Undeciphered Witness There are objects that survive. Then there are objects that remember. The Pashupati Seal of Mohenjo-daro, carved from steatite, no larger...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jun 5, 2026, 7:46 AM

Wider Lessons of Gay Pride Month: MEeting the “Enemy”

Israel started its Gay Pride Month celebrations yesterday with Jerusalem's Gay Pride parade. Tel Aviv's march – the largest in the Middle East – will take place next Friday (June 12). Whether we "agree" or not with homosexuality, there’s...

Jun 2, 2026, 10:18 AM

Beyond Patronage: The People as Custodians of the Nation

The People as Custodians of the Nation. AI Illustration. (Credit: ChatGPT)

Partha Chatterjee’s political society, Hindu democratic agency, and the West Bengal verdict of 2026 The Framework and Its Horizon For more than two decades, Partha Chatterjee’s (2004) distinction between civil society and political society has done more to clarify the actual texture of democracy in...

May 24, 2026, 6:35 PM

Gaay, Gayatri, Gita

Krishna and Cowherd. AI Image. (Credit: ChatGPT)

On the Sanctity of the Cow and the Grammar of Civilizational Love Before philosophy, there was milk. Before the child could receive the Gayatri mantra, that solar hymn breathed into young ears at dawn, before the young man could sit with...

May 19, 2026, 7:08 PM

The US Constitution Does Not Follow You to Israel

When words cross borders, responsibility must follow them (Rafael Nir, Unsplash).

American Jews often forget that the First Amendment is not a foreign policy or a global eruv. One of the stranger habits of American Jewish life is the assumption that the United States Constitution follows American Jews wherever they go...

Maurice Solovitz

May 18, 2026, 5:14 AM

The Madrid Bombings and Islamism’s successful Western Colonial Project

or How the new-Palestinians learnt to Gaslight Jews on Everything. On the 11th of March 2004 at 07:37 a.m. Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network exploded ten bombs on four Madrid bound commuter trains murdering 193 people (including Spaniards and people...

Todd L. Pittinsky

May 18, 2026, 4:37 AM

Yes, You Can Quit the New York Times

A field guide for those who know better but have not—yet. There is a particular panic that sets in when one considers canceling The New York Times. Not fear of losing the paper so much as fear of losing the...

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