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How To Do Activism Right, with Jay Ruderman, Tuly Weisz, and Pesach Wolicki

These days, it seems like everyone is a so-called activist. Activism itself seems to have morphed into something different; it’s not about organizing communities or advoc

Israel’s Most Controversial Politician, with Itamar Ben-Gvir

There’s no more divisive Israeli public figure than Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir. Starting out his career as a Kahanist firebrand known for his controver

Passover Crossover - How to Be a Jew ... Like Dara Horn

Rootless is off this week for Passover, but we wanted to bring you an episode of How to Be a Jew we think you'll like. Like most Jews, the news of the murder of the Bib

Why Oct. 7 Victims Are Suing a Palestinian Mogul, with Gary Osen

When people concerned with the future of the Palestinian people talk about the future, they often say, hopefully, that change will come only once we can replace Hamas and

Why God Was Right, with Mark Gerson

Like most highly successful entrepreneurs, Mark Gerson likes things he can measure, quantify, and know for certain. So as a student of the Torah, a question came to mind:

How Israel Will Save Western Civilization, with Josh Hammer

In his new and best-selling book, Israel and Civilization, Josh Hammer makes a bold claim: the future of Western civilization depends on the State of Israel and the Jewis

How Universities Lost Their Way, With Cary Nelson

Universities are meant to be spaces of free inquiry, knowledge, and rigorous debate. But according to academic and writer Cary Nelson, they’ve instead become hotbeds of i

Why Dual Loyalty is Good for the Jews, with Rabbi Nolan Lebovitz

The charge of dual loyalty has long been a key weapon in the arsenal of anti-Semites everywhere. But in his new book, The Case for Dual Loyalty: Healing the Divided Soul

Why Trump’s Deportation of Mahmoud Khalil is Perfectly Legal, with Ilya Shapiro

Last Saturday, ICE agents detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born Palestinian who was one of the leaders behind the year-long Tentifadah in Columbia University. Khalil and

What to Do in Ukraine, and in Gaza? With Eli Lake

It’s been a week of fast-paced breaking news, from a bit of Hamas propaganda winning the Academy Award for best documentary to President Trump and Vice President Vance pr

Can Orthodox Judaism Be Reformed? with Rabbi Irving Greenberg

One of American Jewry’s leading theologians and thinkers, Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg has spent decades engaging—and enraging—orthodoxy by suggesting it was time for re

Is This the End of Woke Capitalism?, With Jennifer Sey

Jennifer Sey was a national gymnastics champion who then won awards for exposing the abuse many female gymnasts suffered at the hands of their male coaches. She was also

Are We Really About to Empty Gaza of Palestinians?, with Tony Badran

Welcoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump has repeatedly made a bombshell proposal: Empty Gaza of its 1.8 million Pa

Are Science and Religion Mutually Exclusive? With Spencer Klavan

Not long ago, a prominent Silicon Valley technologist told anyone who would listen that he believed he would never die because Artificial Intelligence was basically a God

Saving Western Values: Rotherham and the Perils of Multiculturalism with Melanie Phillips

Elon Musk recently reignited discussion of a decade-old child sex scandal in England, in which more than 1,000 girls were groomed and raped by gangs largely composed of m

Is the Hostage Deal a Disaster? with Gadi Taub

 According to reports, Israel is about to sign a ceasefire deal with Hamas that will secure the return of some hostages in return to a partial Israeli withdrawal from Gaz

Can we Forgive Our Worst Enemies? Should We? With R.R. Reno

For the past two years, a group of esteemed Christian and Jewish thinkers and theologians met regularly to discuss the one thing they felt was most sorely missing from th

Will We All Soon Be Haredi? With Rabbi Gil Student

 In 2012, tens of thousands of Orthodox Jews packed Citi Field to protest the Internet and demand that believers tune out of the new nascent new medium. Rabbi Gil Student

Rootless: The Best of 2024

It’s been a whopper of a year: Israel at war with Hamas and Hezbollah, a decisive Trump victory, anti-Semitism on the rise, and formerly great American institution on the

How to Save New York from Itself, with Nicole Gelinas

When Jordan Neely, a mentally disturbed man with a long rap sheet began threatening his fellow subway passengers one day last year, they were all terrified. But one strap