Ideas

Ideas

From vigils to vitriol, the Texas hostage crisis showed social media at its best and worst

A machine for creating community — and spreading anger.

Police lights shine on Congregation Beth Israel synagogue

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I hope we won’t let the Texas synagogue hostage crisis erode in-person prayer even more

Houses of worship are vulnerable by design, and when that space is closed off, whether through security or by going online, something is lost, writes Raphael Magarick.

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How Satmar Hasidim used liberal values to create an illiberal ‘shtetl’ in suburban New York

Kiryas Joel has few precedents in Diaspora history but is at home on the political and religious landscape of the United States, write David N. Myers and Nomi M. Stolzenberg.