War Has Changed, but Territory Still Matters
A painful loss for Israel’s enemies.
March 8, 2024
A Piece of 11th-Century Technology Displays Muslim-Jewish Scientific Collaboration
The astrolabe of Verona.
Whatever Hamas believes, Muslim-Jewish conflict is neither timeless nor inevitable. One piece of evidence of vibrant cultural and intellectual interactions between devotees of these two faiths is an 11th-century astrolabe—a gizmo used for making complex geographic and astronomic calculations that was popular with medieval scientists. Examining this particular astrolabe at a museum in Verona, Italy, the historian Frederica Gigante recently detected Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions. Cambridge University reports:
March 8, 2024
Meet the New Anti-Zionism, Same as the Old Anti-Zionism
What attracted Harvard students to a 1960s anti-Semitic cartoon?
Don’t Ignore the Religious Roots of Hamas’s Brutality
The atrocities weren’t a byproduct of war but an end in themselves.
A Piece of 11th-Century Technology Displays Muslim-Jewish Scientific Collaboration
The astrolabe of Verona.
When Conservative Rabbis Argued about Ordaining Women
A dispute between the old world and the new?