The U.S. Can’t Afford to Ignore Iraq
In the wake of elections, Iran is tightening its grip.
July 2, 2018
A Maverick Rabbi Finishes His Magnum Opus
“The most systematic, comprehensive commentary on Maimonides’ code ever produced.”
Born outside of Montreal in 1928, Rabbi Nachum Rabinovitch has spent the past four decades in Israel where he has labored on a detailed, 23-volume commentary on Moses Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah—an encyclopedic code of Jewish law—that is now near completion. Rabinovitch has aimed to elucidate the text’s meaning, and to harmonize the Mishneh Torah with Maimonides’ major philosophical treatise, the Guide of the Perplexed. Allan Nadler, who deems Rabinovitch’s work “the most systematic, comprehensive commentary on Maimonides’ code ever produced,” describes its author’s intellectual approach and career:
July 2, 2018
Jerusalem’s Past and Jerusalem’s Future
Archaeology, the embassy, and the thaw in relations between Israel and some Arab states.
The British Government Attacks an Ultra-Orthodox Girls’ School for Its Standards of Modesty
Totalitarianism in the name of “equalities.”
A Maverick Rabbi Finishes His Magnum Opus
“The most systematic, comprehensive commentary on Maimonides’ code ever produced.”
The Troubling Rehabilitation of Leni Riefenstahl
A new exhibit in Berlin about Hitler’s “favorite filmmaker.”