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Oct 1, 2026, 11:27 PM

After FZ1073, Europe Spoke in Different Voices

The passengers, the captain, and the cabin crew of Flydubai flight FZ1073 are heroes. When catastrophe threatened, they acted. They fought back, helped regain control of the aircraft, and saved lives. What happened afterward was less straightforward. European capitals struggled...

Oct 1, 2026, 10:34 PM

Can Jews Live Freely in Berlin?

Berlin Governing Mayor Kai Wegner, left, speaks with Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal at an event in Berlin, Germany, before the September 20, 2026 state election. Jewish life and the fight against antisemitism have become central issues in the debate over Berlin’s next government. Picture: Michael Kuenne

After Berlin’s election, Governing Mayor Kai Wegner warns that the Left poses a security risk. But the deeper question is whether the city’s next government can protect Jewish Berliners’ right to live visibly, openly and without fear. If you live...

Sep 27, 2026, 5:19 PM

Europe’s Israeli Paradox

Eighty years after the end of the Second World War, Europe finds itself confronting a contradiction largely of its own making. Western Europe emerged from the catastrophe of 1939–45 determined to reject the nationalism that had helped destroy the continent....

Sep 27, 2026, 4:50 AM

The Europe Behind Lisbon’s Two Doors

The year 2026 marks the 40th anniversary of Portugal’s membership in the European Union (EU). The country joined what was then the European Communities (EC) on January 1, 1986, consolidating its transition from dictatorship to democracy. Four decades later,...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Sep 23, 2026, 9:36 PM

Why Historians Care About Evidence, Not Vibes

In August 1921, The Times of London printed passages from a book by Maurice Joly next to passages from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Joly had published Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu in Brussels in 1864....

Nestor Daniel Scherman

Sep 23, 2026, 7:16 PM

Did Europe Really Learn to Live in Peace, or Did America Keep the Peace?

Did Europe Learn to Live in Peace? There is something extraordinary about Europe that we hardly notice anymore. For more than eighty years, France and Germany have not fought each other. Neither have Germany and Poland, France and Britain, or...

Sep 22, 2026, 1:21 AM

The AfD’s Rise Should Alarm Israel

Eighty years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, a party accused of harboring extremists and minimizing the crimes of the Holocaust has won a stunning electoral victory. For Jews in Germany, Israel and across Europe, the question is no...

Julian Ungar-Sargon

Sep 21, 2026, 7:27 PM

The Street and the Home, Part IV

Vienna, the Ostjude, and the Jewish Shadow And yet the archetypal reading, however illuminating, cannot be allowed to float free of history, because history supplies this essay's most unbearable irony — perhaps its emotional center — and it would be...

Sep 18, 2026, 6:21 PM

Europe Will Not Be Muslim, but It Will Change

In late July 2026, tens of thousands of people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, nearly as many as the city's entire population. This was no natural phenomenon. It was a geopolitical lever. A recent Spanish court ruling...

Sep 17, 2026, 3:38 PM

What Europe can learn from Israel’s Startup Nation

Eran Westman said something to me during a much longer conversation we shared last week that stuck with me. "I think Europe has most of the ingredients of a world-class tech ecosystem. What has been missing is the ability...

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