Plato’s Haggadah in the ‘Dialogues’

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Now that Jews all over the world will once again assemble around the seder table and read the Haggadah — the story of the exodus from Egypt — it may be worthwhile to put some thought into the art of reading.

Zionist ‘Nachas’

Michael Freund

For more than two-thirds of our national existence, Jews were without an army of their own.

Who Still Sees the Wonder of Judaism?

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

We need people who can teach us to take off our mask — which by now has merged with our skin — and show us the original glow of God’s word, as Moshe did.

Why Do the Arabs Hate the Palestinians So?

Mordechai Kedar

The Arab world, for many reasons, is not at all interested in giving the Palestinian Arabs a state. The Palestinian Arabs don’t really want one either, because why kill the “refugee” goose that lays the golden eggs?

Finding One’s Neshomeh*

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Attending synagogue must be a homecoming; it will spare the Jewish world a great amount of self-imposed harm.

The Enduring Preciousness of the Secular Jew

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

This is a nightmare that, at this moment in Jewish history, should terrify each and every religious Jew: the unawareness of our being involved in a new failure, in a tragic dereliction of duty.