Unless the World Stops Deluding Itself, Sanctions on Iran Will be Lifted Sooner Rather than Later
Coming to a “broader conclusion.”
June 16, 2017
A Lesson on Freedom from the Biblical Story of the Spies
It takes time to learn to be free.
In this week’s Torah reading of Shlaḥ-l’kha (Numbers 13-15), Moses and the Israelites are poised to enter the promised land, and send twelve spies in advance to scout it out. When ten of them report back that the land, inhabited by fortress-dwelling giants, is unconquerable, the people lose their faith and sink into despair, and God decrees that they must wander in the desert for 40 years until the adults have died off. Thus it will be the next generation, raised not in Egyptian slavery but in the desert wilderness, that will inherit the land. Jonathan Sacks comments:
June 16, 2017
What the U.S. Can Learn from the Failures of Democracy Promotion in Egypt
Forget civil society. Focus on education.
How the “New York Times” Divulged Vital Israeli Secrets
Risking America’s security to undermine Donald Trump.
Love and Tolerance Do Not Constitute Grounds for Conservative Judaism to Abandon Its Position on Intermarriage
Judaism’s countercultural idea that spiritual and moral growth comes from the maintenance of boundaries.
A Lesson on Freedom from the Biblical Story of the Spies
It takes time to learn to be free.