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Nov 9, 2026, 6:53 PM

A Light in Kaiserswerth Germany

When the political noise of the world becomes overwhelming, the lessons of history and the courage of a new generation can restore a measure of hope. It has been a horrible week for me, and for Jews everywhere. The Israeli elections...

Nov 9, 2026, 2:40 PM

Calling out Antisemitism

Antiwar protests in Chicago, 2025. Paul Goyette via Wikimedia commons

Thank you, American people, for reminding me why I moved to this frustrating, crisis-ridden country in the first place. We’ll start with your right wingers. Vice President Vance blamed “us” for the Republicans’ losses in the midterm elections. Even President...

Nov 9, 2026, 6:39 AM

Deja vu: A Replay of the 1930s?

Growing up, my mother loved telling stories of my Jewish grandfather murdered by the Nazis before I was born. “He was a good man,” she’d say of her Polish father, who spent most of his life in Germany. “He was...

Richard D. Gitlin

Nov 8, 2026, 9:49 PM

The Jewish Vote and the Price of Political Loyalty

American Jews remain overwhelmingly Democratic while younger generations grow increasingly critical of Israel. Are our political loyalties and communal institutions serving us well? The November 3 midterm elections revealed a troubling paradox that American Jews can no longer afford to...

Nov 8, 2026, 9:48 PM

The Disconnection of JD Vance

May 7, 2025. Speaking at the Munich Leaders Conference in Washington, JD Vance declared that allowing Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon was out of the question. June 22, 2025. On ABC News, Vance stated: “There is no way that...

Arnold D. Samlan

Nov 8, 2026, 6:58 PM

Celebrating Democracy & the Vote

Preface: I am a registered independent voter, who has been both a registered Republican and a registered Democrat in recent years, because, in Florida, one is required to register for a party in order to vote in primary elections....

Nov 8, 2026, 5:27 PM

They See Israel. They Don’t Feel It.

I started with the wrong question. The question was why so many educated, comfortable American Jews, and especially their children, don’t see what I see about Israel. Put that way, I had already answered it. I’d decided they were...

Tony D. Senatore

Nov 8, 2026, 4:49 PM

From Rothbard to Plato: The Search for a Just Society

I've always been intrigued by how the United States might have developed without government. I first encountered that possibility through the writings of Murray Rothbard, the Austrian School economist and political philosopher who developed the concept of a stateless...

Nov 8, 2026, 2:04 PM

America may be ready for a Jewish president. Is the Democratic Party?

Victorious Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., during an election night event, November 3, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Jon Ossoff's political rise raises a question that reaches far beyond his own ambitions. Anti-Zionism is gaining ground within the Democratic Party, while antisemitism casts a dark shadow over Jewish life across America. In this climate, can a Jewish...

Nov 8, 2026, 1:57 PM

Is Congress Going to Become the Next United Nations When It Comes to Israel?

On Tuesday morning, as Americans headed to the polls, President Trump told Fox & Friends that the roughly $4 billion in annual military aid the United States sends Israel would end at the close of this year, an agreement...

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