Before There Can be Peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the U.S. Needs to Defeat Radical Islam
And stop talking about settlements.
January 5, 2017
A Great Rabbi and His Surprising Interactions with Renaissance Humanists
How the Maharal arranged Hebrew lessons for Huguenots.
On the final page of an autograph book (a bit like a modern-day yearbook) belonging to the Huguenot humanist Jacques Bongars is a note in Hebrew signed by Judah Seligmann Wahl of Venice and dated 1585. Seligmann—who identifies himself as a rabbinic judge in the city of Prague—states that he taught Hebrew to Bongars and another French Protestant and trained them in reading the Jewish Scriptures at the suggestion of Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague, better known as the Maharal. Joanna Weinberg considers what this document, and other evidence she has gathered about the Maharal and his interactions with Christians, suggest about his views of the non-Jewish world:
January 5, 2017
Russia Tries to Bring the Taliban into Its Anti-U.S. Alliance
The fact that they’re fighting Islamic State doesn’t mean they’re not a serious threat.
Troubling Though Right-Wing Anti-Semitism Might Be, Jews Should Be More Frightened by the Islamist Variety
One is armed with spray paint and Twitter, the other with multitudes of state-of-the-art rockets.
A Great Rabbi and His Surprising Interactions with Renaissance Humanists
How the Maharal arranged Hebrew lessons for Huguenots.
An Impressive Volume Uses a Discussion of “Jewish Modernity” as an Occasion for Fashionable Anti-Israelism
Makers of Jewish Modernity: ambitious, intriguing, and occasionally useful.