The U.S. and UN Continue to Recycle Palestinian Propaganda about Settlements
New construction will have zero impact on the peace process.
September 6, 2016
A Lost Jewish Tradition about the Bible’s Authorship
Did Isaiah write the book of Isaiah?
Modern though it may seem, the question of who wrote the Hebrew scriptures is actually discussed in ancient Jewish sources; in fact, the talmudic rabbis were well aware that books might have been written first in one form and then redacted by later editors. The standard account appears in the Babylonian Talmud, but an alternate version associated with the Masoretes, 10th-century scribes in northern Israel who preserved the old manuscripts of the Bible, appears in (among other places) a fragment found in the Cairo Geniza. Kim Phillips speculates as to which version might be the original:
September 6, 2016
Should Israel Become a Maritime Power?
Making up for a reduced American role.
Where Palestinians Are Being Tortured, Imprisoned, and Slaughtered
The other Palestinians.
A Lost Jewish Tradition about the Bible’s Authorship
Did Isaiah write the book of Isaiah?
Jonathan Safran Foer: Not the Great American Jewish Novelist
If kitsch has a “fairy-tale glow,” then Here I Am is positively radiant.