Judaism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Addiction Is the Disease of Desire
Bear the standard for religious orthodoxy with First Things. Make your contribution to our 2023 spring campaign today at firstthings.com/donate.…
What Pro-Choice Black Leadership Has Wrought
The corner of Connecticut Avenue and M Street in downtown Washington is occasionally patrolled by young men…
Saving God’s Creation in the Philippines
The documentary Delikado, Filipino for “risky” or “dangerous,” opens in prayer: “Take care of us, Lord. Please…
Aquinas, Kings, and Tyrants
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. William McCormick joins the podcast to…
The Real Civil Rights Issue of Our Time
In his new memoir, former attorney general William P. Barr defends religious liberty as the most pressing…
The Music of the Season
The Pennsylvania state lottery has, as its spokesperson, a talking groundhog. This supersized rodent shows up with…
What Middle Eastern Christians Want
The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets by janine…
A Naive Heretic
Reason to Believe: The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobs by harry freedman bloomsbury continuum, 304 pages, $35…
Looking Back to Think Forward
History is a great teacher. And lately I’ve been absorbed by three late 15th- and early 16th-century…
Mere Judaism
Judaism Straight Up:Why Real Religion Enduresby moshe koppel maggid books, 218 pages, $24.95 Seventy years ago, the…
The Judaism of George Steiner
George Steiner, who died earlier this year, was one of the most influential Jewish intellectuals of the…
The Power of Public Policy
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Oren Cass…
A Failed Experiment in Methodist Unity
After just fifty years, the experiment in Methodist unity that is the United Methodist Church is coming…
Bitterness and Hope at Chanukah
A column about Jewish things. Chanukah is Judaism at its least demanding and most comfortable. We light…
Dignity in Flames
The flames of the Hanukkah candles symbolize both enchantment and futility in a way that speaks to…
