Ideas Critics of Trump’s US Holocaust Memorial Council firings run the risk of trivializing the cataclysm A former council member says the firings shouldn’t be lamented as though they reflect Nazi-like oppression.
Ideas We don’t know much about Leo XIV and the Jews. But he could be just the pope for us. A Jewish professor at a Catholic university makes the case for optimism.
Ideas The 20th century was very good for these Jewish icons. Is the Golden Age really over? Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Norman Mailer and Leonard Bernstein are the “unruly” subjects of David Denby’s “Eminent Jews.”
Ideas Israel and those who love it are stuck in a hopeless present. Can we ever get back to the future?