Mosaic Magazine

Since its launch in June 2013, Mosaic has adopted a dynamic and dedicated perspective on Jewish topics and concepts. At the heart of Mosaic is a comprehensive monthly essay that explores important issues or themes relevant to Jews, Judaism, or the Jewish state. To enhance the conversation surrounding each essay, invited specialists provide their insights and critiques of the author's arguments, which are then followed by the author's response at the end of the month.

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Leaking Israeli Attack Plans Is a Tool of U.S. Policy

3 days ago | mosaicmagazine.com | Seth Mandel

Last week, the New York Times reported, based on unnamed sources within the Trump administration, that the president had asked Israel not to carry out a planned strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. That is, somebody deliberately gave this information to the press, which later tried to confirm it by speaking with other officials.
In Nuclear Talks, Iran Has Won Round One

1 week ago | mosaicmagazine.com | Elliott Abrams

On Saturday, initial talk between Washington and Tehran took place in Oman on the subject of the Iranian nuclear program. The two sides agreed to continue negotiations this coming weekend. Elliott Abrams believes that, so far, Iran has come out ahead:First, the United States demanded direct negotiations while Iran wanted indirect talks. The talks in Oman were indirect, with the Omani foreign minister as go-between.
Podcast: Dara Horn on Her New Graphic Novel

2 weeks ago | mosaicmagazine.com | Dara Horn

Later this week Jewish families all over the world will sit down at the seder table and, guided by the text of the Haggadah, recapitulate in a highly ornate and ritualized form the Israelite redemption from oppression in Egypt. The text of the Haggadah itself is fascinating, not only because of its sources and composition and what it emphasizes and how, but also because it references itself. There are discussions of previous seders within the seder.
For Today’s Children, Screens Are Becoming Formative Institutions

3 weeks ago | mosaicmagazine.com | Christine Rosen

Today, it is not uncommon for daily activities to be mediated through data-gathering screens: when you are putting gas in your car at the gas station, the screen prompts you to respond to a survey, as does the credit-card checkout device held by your server at a restaurant. How would you rate your gas-station experience today on a scale of 1 to 5?
A Jewish Approach to Reining in Artificial Intelligence »

1 month ago | mosaicmagazine.com

The golem of Rehovot and its descendants.
Israel’s Second War of Independence

1 month ago | mosaicmagazine.com | Michael Oren

During the summer of 2024—because I could no longer bear the thought of not taking an active part in our ongoing war, and thanks also to my stubborn refusal to acknowledge my advancing years—I volunteered for the IDF reserves. For the first time in decades, I put on a uniform, donned a helmet, and picked up a gun; the uniform still fit me, more or less, while the latter two items were far heavier than I’d remembered.
Donald Trump Sees Gazans as People, Not as a Cause

2 months ago | mosaicmagazine.com | Elliott Abrams

Assessing the future of Gaza and the White House proposal for its reconstruction, Elliott Abrams turns to another one of the so-called minor prophets (known in Jewish tradition as “the Twelve”): Zephaniah, who prophesied that “Gaza shall be forsaken.” Abrams begins by looking at the aftermath of the Israeli withdrawal from the Strip in 2005:Hamas bided its time for about eighteen months and then took a week to overpower Palestinian Authority forces and take control.
The Policies of October 6 Kept Israel Safe-Until They Didn’t

Nov 8, 2024 | mosaicmagazine.com | Shany Mor

In my original essay on the failed concepts that brought Israel to the catastrophe of October 7, 2023, I asked to focus on the big mental models that had failed, not the tactical and intelligence failures on that deadly Saturday morning. This isn’t because tactical failures are unimportant and weren’t fateful, but rather because they don’t tell the whole story. I specifically drew attention to four big conceptual failures and the way the interaction between them became so disastrous.
What American Jews Gave After October 7: An Accounting

Nov 4, 2024 | mosaicmagazine.com | Jack Wertheimer

Testifying before a U.S. Senate committee last November, the historian Jonathan Sarna described how American Jews have reacted to the explosion of hatred directed against them and Israel since October 7, 2023: “We thought all that history was in the past. . . .
Podcast: Matthew Levitt on Israel’s War with Hizballah

Nov 1, 2024 | mosaicmagazine.com | Matthew Levitt

On October 25 of this year, Israel carried out a series of retaliatory strikes on military targets in Iran. The Iranian supreme leader has made public pronouncements ordering his military to prepare a series of counterstrikes, though, as of this recording, those counterstrikes have not yet commenced.