The Case for Cancelling the Reasonableness Clause
“No person or body stands above the law.”
September 18, 2023
A Novelist Reflects on Faith, Literature, and the Yom Kippur War
“God Hidden in Heaven’s Vaults.”
Next Monday, Yom Kippur, marks on the Jewish calendar the 50th anniversary of the simultaneous Syrian and Egyptian surprise attack on Israel. The rabbi and novelist Haim Sabato was one of the hundreds of young Israeli men rushed to the Golan Heights to fight a series of desperate tank battles against overwhelmingly superior numbers; among those in his unit was the late Shimon Gershon Rosenberg, who later became a beloved Talmud teacher and innovative theologian known to his acolytes as Rav Shagar. Sabato fictionalized his wartime experiences in his novel Adjusting Sights. In a 2014 essay—or perhaps, a work of metafiction—recently translated into English by Jeffrey Saks, Sabato recounts how his brothers in arms reacted to the book. The essay begins thus:
September 18, 2023
The Mossad Director’s Threat to Iran Was Meant as a Message to the U.S.
Preventing a nuclear Iran takes precedence over normalization with Saudi Arabia.
A Novelist Reflects on Faith, Literature, and the Yom Kippur War
“God Hidden in Heaven’s Vaults.”
In the 3rd Century, Rabbis Composed the Text That Would Become the Basis of the Talmud. Why?
If the Mishnah isn’t theology, history, or law, what is it?
A Legal Victory for Freedom of Speech, and “Chained Wives”
A recent ruling has important ramifications for Jewish divorce law in the U.S.