Elliot Jager's Blog On Jewish Civilization

When your hometown happens to also be a spiritual and political powder keg – a point of pilgrimage as well as strife – it's easy to find...

A Vote Not Cast When my Labor Zionist cousins made aliya from New York City in the 1950s to an agricultural moshav outside Raanana they ...

What most American Jews know about New York's Lower East Side comes from books like Irving Howe's World of our Fathers, memories...

Some cataclysmic events occur with the speed of a train wreck; others unfold over a period of months or even years. Nassim Nicholas Taleb...

The Unseen Shield The news report hardly makes much of an impression on most Israelis: a checkpoint search in the West Bank, this one in the...