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The Struggle for a New American Gospel
God first appeared to me in a photograph. I was six years old. A deacon in my family’s Pentecostal church called me over one morning and pulled out a grainy photo from his suit pocket. It was taken...
View ArticleA Paris Agreement for the Workers of the World
In 2015, nearly every country on Earth signed the Paris accord, a recognition that climate change is an existential threat and that the solution is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That historic...
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Don’t Give Up
For decades now, the Jewish communities in Israel and the U.S. have been drifting apart. While almost three-quarters of American Jews continue to vote Democratic and a majority identify as liberal, the...
View ArticleThe Senseless Legal Precedent That Enables Wrongful Convictions
George Alvarez spent four years in a Texas prison because a jail guard lied. The guard told prosecutors that the 17-year-old teenager had grabbed him by the throat while being transferred to another...
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Gary Shteyngart’s Empathy Experiment
In some ways, Barry Cohen, the central character of Gary Shteyngart’s new novel Lake Success, resembles the hapless, straight, male protagonists of the author’s earlier novels. In Super Sad True Love...
View ArticleGoing for Broke
Stacey Abrams is running for governor of Georgia, and she’s in debt. Throughout the summer, her opponent, Brian Kemp, criticized her for her financial situation, suggesting that funding a campaign...
View ArticleWhy Trump Can’t Believe Christine Blasey Ford
It’s a damning critique of President Donald Trump that his own staffers treated his relatively muted response to a sexual-assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as a minor...
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The Deep Sources of a Great Divide
The growing divergence of American Jews from Israel is actually composed of two different phenomena: on the one hand, there is anger towards Israel among a set of American Jewish elites, especially...
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Who’s Afraid of Criticizing Israel?
This spring, in the brief, bruising epoch of Roseanne Barr’s resurrection and collapse as a network TV star, a vile photo emerged on the internet. It showed Barr, a red apron tied around her waist,...
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Two Ways of Being Jewish
A Diaspora Divided Twelve writers address the changing relationship between American Jews and Israel Joshua Cohen Israel's Season of Discontent Michael Koplow Fraught Relationship, Fated Bond Ruth...
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A Homeland in America
I am exhausted by Israel. My exhaustion isn’t much compared to the humiliation and oppression of the Palestinians, who have withstood the forced conversion of the occupied West Bank into a skein of...
View ArticleA Diaspora Divided
Joshua Cohen Israel's Season of Discontent Michael Koplow Fraught Relationship, Fated Bond Ruth Margalit The Perils of the Ultra-Orthodox Alliance Theodore Ross Who's Afraid of Criticizing Israel?...
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The Intersectional Jewish-American
In 1967, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) published a two-page spread in its Newsletter on “The Palestine Problem.” The group was in the midst of transitioning from being an...
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Don’t Give Up
For decades now, the Jewish communities in Israel and the U.S. have been drifting apart. While almost three-quarters of American Jews continue to vote Democratic and a majority identify as liberal, the...
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A Memoir of Disillusionment
My relationship with Israel started before I can remember. Growing up Orthodox, I started learning to read Hebrew at roughly the same time I started learning to read English, although my Hebrew had a...
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Fraught Relationship, Fated Bond
I grew up with a Disneyland version of Israel: It was a country that had truly been a land without people waiting for a people without a land. It was immaculately conceived after Zionist leaders...
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The Perils of the Ultra-Orthodox Alliance
The weeks before the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, breaks for summer recess are often a telling time. It’s when the government tries to cram through as many contentious yet politically expedient...
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Whose Side Are Asian-Americans On?
Katherine Sanchez, a 16-year-old with curly hair and glasses, is unique among her peers at Stuyvesant, one of eight specialized high schools considered the “crown jewels” of New York City’s public...
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All the Rage
You would think there would be more literature about why men are so angry—the president, the mob in Charlottesville a year ago, the alt-right generally, the bar brawlers, the wife-beaters, the...
View ArticleHow Not to Do Comic Noir
Genre-crossover movies can be delightful. Red Sun is a brilliant Samurai Western. Black martial arts films like The Last Dragon or Game of Death are blessings in video form. Noir might be the most...
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