Taking the Islamic State Threat to the U.S. Seriously, and Reclaiming America’s National Purpose
The president thinks America can live with occasional terrorist attacks. He’s wrong.
November 1, 2016
A 19th-Century Jewish Zealot, Mystic, Promoter of Science, and Universalist
Pinḥas Eliyahu Hurwitz’s bestseller remains popular among Ḥaredim today.
In his Sefer ha-Brit, Pinḥas Eilyahu Hurwitz (1765-1821) aimed to introduce Jews unable (or unwilling) to read European languages to the scientific advances of his day. The book, which became something of a best-seller, also included a second part devoted to kabbalistic piety; this may explain why it remains popular among 21st-century Ḥaredim, being recently republished by a ḥaredi press. The American historian David Ruderman has produced a scholarly study on it. In his review, Yitzhak Melamed explicates Hurwitz’s “counter-enlightenment” outlook and his universalism:
November 1, 2016
Fatah’s Attacks on the Balfour Declaration Are Reminder That Palestinian Leaders Don’t Believe in a Two-State Solution
Not much has changed since 1948.
A Civil-Rights Group That Once Took Klansmen and Neo-Nazis to Court Now Hounds Liberal Muslims for “Blasphemy”
The ignominious decline of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
A 19th-Century Jewish Zealot, Mystic, Promoter of Science, and Universalist
Pinḥas Eliyahu Hurwitz’s bestseller remains popular among Ḥaredim today.
Tales of Ten Scrolls
The journeys of historic Torah scrolls.