Kind: Reads

Accountability is on life support and even Jack Smith may not save it.

What do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right?

I have always protested Israel's occupation and systemic anti-Arab discrimination, but I won't join New York's pro-Palestinian protests. I will never take a toxic test requiring me to denounce other Jews nor march with anyone legitimizing killing Israelis as 'resistance'

In today's hurting Israel, an ancient Hanukkah song is given a new, urgent, very sad addition.

The University of Nebraska responded to white supremacist on campus with more speech to drown him out, a Jewish professor there recalls.

Amid the horror in Israel, ‘Eretz Nehederet,’ the country’s version of SNL, has become both a weapon and ‘spiritual first aid.’

I felt pressure to put my minority status on college applications. But, unlike Harvard president Claudine Gay, I refused to be currency in someone's power game.

I thought the Pennsylvania senator was a trust fund kid pretending to have tough guy morals. But after October 7, he proved to be the real deal.

Just letting the poor woman be would have been unconscionable.

Disruptive innovation,” a term heard more often in business school than in synagogue, has been at the heart of the Jewish project from the beginning. Soon after establishing the covenant at Sinai, the Children of Israel reconstructed their religious life around a mobile tabernacle that carried their community and its faith through the wilderness. Upon […]

Imagine you are a head of state with the opportunity to kill in one strike the entire political and military leadership of an enemy terrorist group. Every. Single. One. All the leaders and commanders who have launched repeated attacks on buses, cafes, and shopping centers would be gone in a flash. Along with terrorists, however, […]

All creation is mine, and every man, a miner.” So begins one of the least-known speeches by Abraham Lincoln, the “Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions,” versions of which were delivered on at least six occasions between April 1858 and April 1860. We generally think of Lincoln as an American prophet, a redeemer president who freed […]

When new technology enters the world, it enriches it and pushes it forward. New technologies always add to people’s lives something they didn’t have before. But technology not only adds to people’s lives; it also takes away from them, as Marshall McLuhan observed. What it adds is always shiny; what it takes away is always […]

This issue was all but complete at the beginning of October. I now look back wistfully to days when our most urgent concern seemed to be the implications of ChatGPT. October 7 changed all that. Sapir turned from a quarterly to a near daily, with one topic: the war in Israel. We thought about shelving […]

From Critical Race Theory to trans rights to COVID, the Republican culture wars directed at education have always been about destroying democracy. Now they're doing the same with antisemitism.

Joining a right-wing war on higher education, led by the likes of Elise Stefanik, will not make American Jews any safer.