Zionist Values, Israeli Security, and the Impediments to Palestinian Statehood
Separation is not the answer.
September 29, 2016
A One-Volume Introduction to Jewish Civilization, Exhibiting Both Breadth and Depth
With a fresh take on Moses Mendelssohn.
In The People and the Book: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature, Adam Kirsch presents a kind of introductory course on Jewish thought, ranging from Pirkei Avot to Moses Maimonides to Benedict Spinoza to Theodor Herzl. Allan Arkush, who writes that the book “constitutes a deeply serious meditation on the meaning of Jewish existence,” takes up its author’s unusual analysis of Jerusalem, a defense of Judaism written by the 18th-century German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn:
September 29, 2016
Without Military Force, Diplomacy Won’t Save Syria
Assad’s—and Putin’s—free ride for mass murder must be stopped.
What Trump and Clinton Said (and Didn’t Say) About the Middle East
Vagueness on Islamic State, silence on Syria.
A One-Volume Introduction to Jewish Civilization, Exhibiting Both Breadth and Depth
With a fresh take on Moses Mendelssohn.
An Unusual Building Near the Western Wall May Have Been a 1st-Century Dining Hall
The ultimate meeting place of the ruling elite.