Understanding Israel’s War on Hizballah’s Finances
Why use sanctions when you can bomb the banks?
October 23, 2024
A Biophysicist’s Guide to Studying Genesis
Finding our place in the still-unfolding story.
Besides singing and dancing, Simchat Torah is celebrated by concluding the public reading of the Torah and beginning it again. Thus Saturday’s parashah will be the first of the book of Genesis. The rabbi and biophysicist Jeremy England provides some guidance about how to approach this book’s challenging opening chapters, and considers the classic rabbinic question: why does the Torah, a book whose name literally means “instruction,” begin with a narrative account of creation?
October 23, 2024
People in Close Contact with Iranian Intelligence Shouldn’t Be Handling America’s State Secrets
Someone leaked Israeli plans to Tehran.
The Pope Cites a Favorite Verse of Anti-Semites in His Letter to Middle Eastern Catholics
A disaster for Jewish relations with the Vatican.
Why Jews, Despite Everything, Should Rejoice This Simchat Torah
A message from 1973.
A Biophysicist’s Guide to Studying Genesis
Finding our place in the still-unfolding story.