The next four years- more of the same. Thoughts after Israel’s elections

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on January 23, 2013

The Dark Side of Judaism

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on January 2, 2013

Liberalism and the decline of a society’s character

By Dennis Prager
Published on June 21, 2011

While most American Jews and other liberals believe in the intrinsic goodness and moral superiority of liberal policies, powerful arguments can be made that liberal policies actually diminish a society’s moral character. Many individual liberals are wonderful people, but the policies they advocate tend to make a people worse.

Are liberal Zionists really Zionists?

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on July 18, 2008

More moderate voices replace liberal academics

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on July 12, 2008

Politics of liberal and conservative Jews reverse

By Arnold Steinberg
Published on November 15, 2007

Recently, I spoke to Reform rabbinical students in their class on "Jewish Political Tradition." Which is, exactly, what? My expertise, I told them, is politics, not theology. Here was my dilemma: to talk reality or defer to the orthodoxy of Reform Jews, which is to say, political liberalism. (Forget the Reconstructionists, i.e., Jewish Unitarians, who are oxymoronic "religious" secular humanists.) How confusing all this, especially for non-Jews, who are further told that Conservative Jews are somewhere between Reform Jews and Orthodox Jews -- sort of like the words "liberal" and "conservative."

Only democratization can fight Islamists

By Paul Kujawsky
Published on June 28, 2007

It is time to renew our commitment to liberalization and democratization -- it is what the Islamists fear most. Congress should pass comprehensive legislation conditioning relations between the United States and nonliberal democracies on progress toward liberalization. This is not imperialism. It is support for decent values and democracies abroad.

Malibu conference on Europe sees threats in ‘multiculturalism’

By Tom Tugend
Published on June 21, 2007

The scholars, journalists and concerned citizens were there for a conference whose title could hardly be weightier or more ominous: "The Collapse of Europe, the Rise of Islam, and the Consequences for the United States."

Republican Redux: Jews Going Right?

By James D. Besser
Published on December 11, 2003

In a town famous for hot air, the Washington Post made a major contribution over the weekend with an oft-repeated tale of how Jewish voters, concerned about terrorism and Israel, are about to migrate to the greener pastures of the GOP.

Prager’s Tactics Are Lacking

By Michael Tolkin
Published on October 10, 2002

Dennis Prager uses half of what I said to the L.A. Times and gives the impression that I am one of those awful leftists who are "either morally confused, immoral or lack courage."

On Jewish Liberalism—and Power

By David N. Myers
Published on March 8, 2001

Several weeks ago, the eminent Harvard sociologist Nathan Glazer, one of the renowned New York intellectuals chronicled in the film "Arguing the World," came to town for a lecture and seminar at UCLA.

Modern, Orthodox and Scared

Published on February 18, 1999

The placard near the escalator of New York's Grand Hyatt Hotel directed seekers up to the ballroom level for the founding convention of Edah, the fledgling voice of Orthodox liberalism.