Ideas

Why the Entebbe rescue almost didn’t happen — and how Israel is still wrestling with the same tough questions 48 years later

Before the raid in Uganda, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Defense Minister Shimon Peres argued over whether to negotiate with terrorists.

Ideas

When the political stakes are high, Judaism doesn’t place all the responsibility on a single charismatic leader

Leadership and citizenship are about sharing the burden, writes a senior vice president at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.

The Sit-Down Ideas

Legal scholar Noah Feldman on the 10 Commandments, Christian nationalism and the Jewish future of church and state

A push for religious symbols in the public square is “bad for having a culture in which lots of different religious traditions including Judaism are allowed to flourish.”

How to disagree as Jews in a time of deep schisms

The battle over Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is over the future of church-state separation

The Reform movement’s decision to admit intermarried rabbis is good. Truly welcoming them would be great.

In the 1940s, Jewish scholars planned a museum about the world they were losing

Israelis are getting religion, in spite of a coercive Chief Rabbinate

Made to feel unwelcome at Pride, LGBTQ Jews will not cede joy

Jews are in a moment of broken illusions, but we’re stronger than we think

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