Out of Babel
Alan MairsonDo Jews and their Story have a future in the Diaspora? It depends on the Stories that drive everyone else.
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"It's time to go home."
I don’t post AI-generated content here (except images). But on a whim this morning, I opened Gemini and entered a prompt to create a short story. The result (below) dramatizes the central question of this Substack: Do Jews have a future in...
Alone Atop The Mountain
Mind experiment:
Take all the Jews from all over the world, and move them to an unpopulated island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. What might give shape to their days, their weeks, their years, their lives?
Now, imagine the...
EXCLUSIVE: Transcript of Rahm Emanuel's next speech in Israel
ATHENS v. JERUSALEM: An old and essential debate, especially now.
On July 8, 2026, at Tel Aviv University in Israel, RAHM EMANUEL delivered a controversial speech about the future of U.S.-Israel relations. It got mixed reviews. “A rerun o...
Snyder vs. Saad: What's your problem?
Crossing paths and borders: Prof. Timothy Snyder and Prof. Gad Saad
Two university professors recently looked at the world and the big problems we currently face — political polarization, economic inequality, environmental decay, social is...
Argument for the sake of… what, exactly?
After a while, people get sick of all the bickering.
In a recent post at Future of Jewish, Vanessa Berg makes a compelling case that “somewhere along the way, we began confusing the Jewish tradition of disagreement with the Jewish habit o...
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I'm a freelance journalist and a former staff writer and editor at National Geographic magazine.
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