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Tikkun Olam: The Jewish Call to Repair the World

Walk into almost any synagogue and you may hear the phrase tikkun olam. The Hebrew words sound ancient, but to most non-Jews they are unfamiliar. Translated simply, they mean “repairing the world.” The idea...

Netanyahu’s Perpetual War: Between Power and Collapse

JERUSALEM — More than four in five Jewish Israelis — 82 percent, according to a June Haaretz poll — now say they support expelling Gazans from the Strip. The figure is overwhelming, and it...

Sam Altman and the Shape of the Future

Sam Altman speaks less like a computer scientist than a strategist. He has no doctorate in artificial intelligence, no technical pedigree of the kind that fills the ranks at OpenAI. Yet he has come...

In Tianjin, Putin Finds Old Friends and New Alignments

When Vladimir V. Putin stepped onto the red carpet in Tianjin last weekend, the choreography was as carefully managed as any in the long history of Sino-Russian relations. The Russian leader’s arrival for the...

Blocking a U.N. Delegation Won’t Hide Gaza

As Gaza slides into documented famine and the International Court of Justice’s provisional measures remain in force, the United States has blocked visas for a Palestinian delegation to the United Nations—an act that collides...