Mahmoud Abbas’s Latest Anti-Semitic Rant Should Come as No Surprise
What’s unusual is that it didn’t go unnoticed.
September 20, 2023
A Famed Scholar’s House of Study Discovered under a Galilean Luxury Hotel
Isaac Luria’s 16th-century living complex.
In modern times, Jews have considered the ancient city of Safed one of the four holy cities in the Land of Israel, primarily because it became a center of mystical scholarship in the 16th and 17th centuries, attracting such figures as Joseph Caro, author of the seminal legal code known as the Shulḥan Arukh. The kabbalist Isaac Luria was another. Recently, the owner of a luxury hotel in Safed came across some features of the building during renovations that led him to call upon the archaeologist Yossi Stefansky to investigate. Yair Kraus writes:
September 20, 2023
The Abraham Accords and Their Namesake
Why they serve Palestinian interests as well as those of their signatories.
Mainstream Social Science Awakens to the Importance of the Family
The Two-Parent Privilege breaks a taboo.
To Moses Maimonides, No Penitent Is an Island
Repentance as a communal pursuit.
A Famed Scholar’s House of Study Discovered under a Galilean Luxury Hotel
Isaac Luria’s 16th-century living complex.