Scurrilous Accusations against Israel Encourage Terrorist Groups to Put Civilians in Harm’s Way
Human Rights Watch’s latest libel.
July 2, 2019
An Ambitious New Book about Jewish History, and Its Flawed Prediction about the Jewish Future
Jacob, Esau, and an imagined post-Orthodox, post-Israel future.
The ancient rabbis understood the Roman empire as the successor to the ancient kingdom of Edom, and the rivalry between the biblical Jacob and his brother Esau—the ancestor of Edom—as a prefiguration of that conflict. Later on, Edom came to signify European Christendom in the rabbinic imagination. In his recent book Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History between Nation and Empire, Malachi Hacohen, a self-identified “post-Orthodox Jew,” combines a history of this typology with a general argument about the Jews of Europe and prognostications about the Jewish future. In his review, Allan Arkush writes:
July 2, 2019
Iran Seeks Chemical and Biological Weapons as Well as Nuclear Ones
Indeed, it probably has them already.
Jews Should Applaud the Supreme Court’s Decision against Banning Religious Symbols from the Public Square
Minority rights and the Bladensburg cross.
An Ambitious New Book about Jewish History, and Its Flawed Prediction about the Jewish Future
Jacob, Esau, and an imagined post-Orthodox, post-Israel future.
After Nearly 150 Years, the French Government Will Open to the Public the Burial Ground of an Ancient Jewish Queen
Helena of Adiabene.