Before There Can be Peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the U.S. Needs to Defeat Radical Islam
And stop talking about settlements.
January 5, 2017
An Impressive Volume Uses a Discussion of “Jewish Modernity” as an Occasion for Fashionable Anti-Israelism
Makers of Jewish Modernity: ambitious, intriguing, and occasionally useful.
A massive collection of 43 specially commissioned biographical essays, Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made covers figures ranging from Theodor Herzl to Emile Durkheim and from Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook to the art critic Aby Warburg. While Elḥanan Yakira deems the quality of the individual essays mixed and some of the particular choices of both subjects and authors “disturbing,” he objects most strongly to the way the book serves as a vehicle for anti-Zionism:
January 5, 2017
Russia Tries to Bring the Taliban into Its Anti-U.S. Alliance
The fact that they’re fighting Islamic State doesn’t mean they’re not a serious threat.
Troubling Though Right-Wing Anti-Semitism Might Be, Jews Should Be More Frightened by the Islamist Variety
One is armed with spray paint and Twitter, the other with multitudes of state-of-the-art rockets.
A Great Rabbi and His Surprising Interactions with Renaissance Humanists
How the Maharal arranged Hebrew lessons for Huguenots.
An Impressive Volume Uses a Discussion of “Jewish Modernity” as an Occasion for Fashionable Anti-Israelism
Makers of Jewish Modernity: ambitious, intriguing, and occasionally useful.