Thoughts on Yitzhak Rabin’s Assassination, a Quarter-Century On
Israel pulled itself away from the brink, and can do so again.
October 30, 2020
An Idiosyncratic Rabbi Who Learned from the Best and Dismissed the Worst of Postmodernism
Meet José Faur.
Born in Buenos Aires to a family of Damascene Jews, the rabbi and polymath José Faur died this summer at the age of eighty-six. His great-niece, the scholar Mijal Bitton, reflects on his unusual intellectual life, informed by both Sephardi and Ashkenazi rabbinic traditions as well as postmodern philosophy:
October 30, 2020
How the British Labor Party Denied Jews Their Place in Politics
With Corbyn out, will the party turn the corner?
The Murder of a French Teacher Demonstrates the Limits of Enlightenment Optimism
Nathan the Wise and the jihadist wave.
The Coronavirus Has Sent Arab Economies Reeling, but Not for the Obvious Reasons
Old ills, not a new disease, are the problem.
An Idiosyncratic Rabbi Who Learned from the Best and Dismissed the Worst of Postmodernism
Meet José Faur.