What Did Qatar Know about the Hamas Attacks, and When Did It Know It?
The emirate’s dangerous double game.
January 12, 2024
A Rare, and Hidden, Talmudic Response to Christian Teachings
Not all Pharisees are hypocrites.
In many passages, the New Testament excoriates the Pharisees (a Second Temple-era Jewish sect) as “hypocrites,” a charge that numerous later Christian authors leveled against Jews, and that early Protestants like Martin Luther leveled against the Catholic Church. Shlomo Zuckier suggests that a talmudic anecdote in Tractate Sotah is intended as rebuttal against the accusation:
January 12, 2024
What Israel Can Accomplish in Gaza
A winnable war and an unwinnable peace.
Hizballah’s Limited Warfare and Iran’s Race to Build Nuclear Weapons
Is the fighting in the north a protracted sideshow?
A Rare, and Hidden, Talmudic Response to Christian Teachings
Not all Pharisees are hypocrites.
How a Sicilian “Ghost Castle” Became the Synagogue of a Revived Community
Jews return to Catania.