Ideas

How an Italian earthquake in 1570 created the first Modern Orthodox Jew

“The Light of the Eyes” caused an intellectually seismic event whose aftershocks reverberate in the Jewish world 500 years later, writes the dean of Touro College.

Ideas

The progressive case for AIPAC

In these divisive and partisan times, we need AIPAC now more than ever, writes a Los Angeles rabbi and community organizer.

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AIPAC must get tough with the anti-Israel left

The lobby had grown so nervous in recent years about offending the political left that it scolded its most loyal members, writes a former legal intern for the organization.