What an Israeli Peace Initiative Should Look Like
The Biden administration can be persuaded to reject Palestinian maximalism.
January 13, 2021
A Lack of Appreciation for the Jewish Virtues of Civility and Rationality Has Sowed Political Chaos in America
An Orthodox rabbi on the recent disturbances, and his own community.
Writing for a ḥaredi audience, Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky considers what lessons pious Jews should draw from the attack on the Capitol last week. To Lopiansky, the rioters’ actions “should have been unthinkable,” and thus the relevant question is not what motivated them, but what made them thinkable. He blames a lack of two cardinal Jewish virtues: da’at (wisdom or “cerebral and calm deliberation”) and civility, or being a mensch:
January 13, 2021
Bringing the Remnants of Ethiopian Jewry Home to Israel
Operation Rock of Israel.
A Lack of Appreciation for the Jewish Virtues of Civility and Rationality Has Sowed Political Chaos in America
An Orthodox rabbi on the recent disturbances, and his own community.
Uri Tzvi Greenberg’s Poetic Call to Arms
Elvis Presley: Philo-Semite and Jew
A new book threads together a web of connections.