Judaism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Turned Away on Palm Sunday
In politics, diplomacy, war, or pretty much any field of human interaction, one must contend not only…
The Scandal of Judaism
Christianity has been marked by hostility toward Jews. I won’t rehearse the history. I’ll simply propose a…
Introducing The Jew From Nowhere
Longtime readers of First Things will probably be able to guess the third in this sequence: Catholic,…
While We’re At It
Above, I do my best to explain St. Paul’s reflections on the theological significance of Jewish...
The Spiritual Windfall of AI
The twentieth century was not particularly kind to blue-collar workers—or God. The Industrial Revolution and the stock…
The New Anti-Semitism
The rise of a new right-coded anti-Semitism might have been dismissed as an ephemeral murmur of the…
AI and Jewish Mysticism
What is the proper spiritual posture from which to ask questions of a machine? Might formulating clever…
The Limits of Universalism: An Exchange
As an American Jew and close friend and colleague of Robert George, it is easy for me…
The Problem with the Jerusalem Statement Against Christian Zionism
On January 17, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in the Holy Land, including the Latin Rite…
Tucker and the Right
Something like a civil war is unfolding within the American conservative movement. It is not merely a…
From Belzec to Bondi
Returning to Sydney in late October after my family trip to Poland was an unsettling experience. It…
Hanukkah Light in a Dark World
Before the Hamas war against Israel, the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City,…
The Sabbath is Back! (ft. J. J. Kimche)
In this episode, J. J. Kimche joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about…
The Return of Old Lies
The task of the historian is typically that of spoiler. When someone at a dinner party declares…
The Rest as History
The Sabbath is making a comeback. Across the West, that most singular and ancient of weekly phenomena—a…
