The Palestinian Authority Deliberately Provoked Sunday’s Jerusalem Riots
Using a Jewish day of mourning to attack visitors to the Temple Mount.
August 16, 2019
A Virtuous Public Life Could Help Protect against Technology’s Erosion of Privacy
“How fair are your tents, O Jacob.”
In the book of Numbers, the Gentile prophet Balaam delivers an extended, divinely inspired blessing to the people of Israel, which includes the verse, “How fair are your tents, O Jacob; your encampments, O Israel!” Drawing on traditional rabbinic interpretations of this verse, Ari Berman sees in it lessons for the current moment, where modern technology and a culture of exhibitionism have led to serious ethical concerns about privacy:
August 16, 2019
A New York Town Fights to Keep Hasidic Jews Out
Naked prejudice in the Hudson Valley.
The Data on Happiness Give the Lie to Stories of Palestinian Misery
Happier than Egyptians or Tunisians.
Want to Buy an Arabic Edition of “Mein Kampf” or Read about the “Zionist Octopus”? Head to the Saudi Arabian Book Fair
A sign of the slow pace of reform.
A Virtuous Public Life Could Help Protect against Technology’s Erosion of Privacy
“How fair are your tents, O Jacob.”