Columns
Could the White House become a Jewish home?
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 26, 2024
(RNS) — American Jews can't at once crave powerlessness and invisibility.
President Biden and the Jewish mystical message
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 25, 2024
(RNS) — When Biden withdrew from the presidential election campaign, something else was going on. Something cosmic.
JD Vance’s ascent marks the rise of the Fantasy Generation
By Karen Swallow Prior — July 25, 2024
(RNS) — Tolkien is now considered the ‘father of fantasy,’ and his imitators — good, poor and in between — are infinite.
Biden’s exit evokes the crisis in American civil religion
By Mark Silk — July 24, 2024
(RNS) — MAGA has abandoned it.
The Democratic convention is looking more like a papal conclave
By Thomas Reese — July 23, 2024
(RNS) — The convention delegates are now free to vote their consciences like the cardinals in conclave.
The sad comedown of the Mormon Satan
By Jana Riess — July 22, 2024
(RNS) — Satan has become that voice of chronic self-doubt in your head, telling you that you’re not good enough, and, hey, you really ought to eat that second brownie.
Why are Israelis so happy?
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 22, 2024
(RNS) — Clue: perhaps we need to sing more. Together.
What I learned in Buenos Aires 30 years ago
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 19, 2024
(RNS) — Enlightenment? How about endarkenment?
Violent words, violent consequences
By Phyllis Zagano — July 17, 2024
(RNS) — One hopes the dictator-in-waiting reins in his bombast and stops shouting 'fight.'
Hawley’s Christian nationalism is the old-time civil religion, weaponized
By Mark Silk — July 16, 2024
(RNS) — The way it was during the Cold War.
New working document points the way for October synod
By Thomas Reese — July 15, 2024
(RNS) — We need to experience synodality to truly understand it, just as we need to experience love to understand it.
Dr. Ruth was a Jewish heroine
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 15, 2024
(RNS) — How many people’s lives became richer and more joyful because of this short, sweet, funny Jewish woman?
The woman who skipped the Nova music festival on Oct. 7
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 11, 2024
(RNS) — She was supposed to go. She didn’t. Therein lies a story.
Those Columbia deans deserved their removals. But what’s next?
By Mark Silk — July 9, 2024
(RNS) — The challenge of actually addressing the rise of antisemitism.
Eucharistic Revival and synodality
By Thomas Reese — July 8, 2024
(RNS) — Synodality is about communion, participation and mission; so, too, is the Eucharist. Too bad the Eucharistic Revival is not.
