Ruth Wisse

October 11, 2016

On Yom Kippur, we examine our sins, but defending Israel isn’t one of them.

As we approach Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, we highly recommend a thoughtful ...

August 4, 2014

The moral necessity of Jewish power

(I first wrote this essay about Tisha B’Av in 2011 and have revised it slightly each year. Thi...

July 28, 2012

On Tisha B’Av: Israel’s mission as Guardian of the Jews

The following is a revised version of an essay I wrote which was published in the journal of the Sou...

February 21, 2011

What anti-Semitism is, and what it isn’t

This is cross posted at Divest This! Given how often the topic is brought up in the comments section...

November 1, 2010

The Anti-Semite’s Pointed Finger (An essay by Ruth Wisse)

Here is a powerful new essay by Ruth Wisse on anti-Semitism.  Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professo...

October 1, 2010

At Harvard, Groupthink About Islam (The appalling hypocrisy of Martin Peretz’s critics)

This essay, by Ruth Wisse, appeared  in the Wall St. Journal Last Saturday, at a university-sponsor...

September 12, 2010

The Arab Lobby

This was published by Ruth Wisse in Jewish Ideas Daily The problem of the Arab-Israel conflict begin...