Reclaiming Secular Zionism’s Religiosity
David Ben-Gurion desired the “redemption of the Jewish people.”
February 24, 2021
A Television Drama Libels Hasidic Jews as Benighted Bigots
While a comedy does the same to Israel.
In its latest episode, Saturday Night Live featured a joke based on the presumption that Israel denies medical care to its non-Jewish citizens. Another series—Nurses, also on NBC—recently aired an episode featuring an injured ḥasidic teenager and his father. Not only do the writers misrepresent Orthodox Judaism as hostile to medicine, they perpetuate the old anti-Semitic stereotype that Jews are possessed, as the Roman historian Tacitus put it, by “a hatred of humanity in general.” Allison Josephs writes:
February 24, 2021
Palestinian Textbooks Still Glorify Terror and Anti-Semitism, and Britain Still Pays for Them
Math with martyrs.
Turkey’s Emerging Friendship with Pakistan
And the Chinese connection.
Recent Discoveries Present New Evidence for the Biblical Account of the Origins of Ancient Israel
King Solomon’s mines.
A Television Drama Libels Hasidic Jews as Benighted Bigots
While a comedy does the same to Israel.