When democracies confront rising radical extremists, one of the most dangerous delusions is the belief that, once in power, they will moderate. This comforting fiction has been embraced by some of our ...

You’ll be surprised to hear that Netanel was not pushed by his father to be chazzan – it was all his choice. But chazzanut was a big part of his childhood.

Unlike legitimate shame, which is a productive, self-correcting mechanism that says, I am less because of what I’ve done, this is toxic shame: I am less because of what was done to me.