Like the Perpetrators of the 1994 Buenos Aires Bombing, Alberto Nisman’s Murderers Are Going Free
An Argentine lawyer investigated the crime and the coverup, and met his death.
January 20, 2022
An Up-Close and Personal Look at Sabbatical Debt Relief
Shmitah is a way of acknowledging that the earth is the Lord’s.
The current Hebrew year, 5782, is shmitah, or the sabbatical year, on which, according to biblical edict, debts are forgiven and the land left to lie fallow. Since the 1st century BCE, observant Jews have used a rabbinic workaround known as prozbul—designed for economies more complex than those of the late Bronze Age—that allows creditors to press their claims even after the seventh year. Drawing on his own experience with massive debt after the 2008 financial crisis tanked his startup, Baruch Sterman examines the meaning of the shmitah, and its modern-day relevance:
January 20, 2022
How Lasers and Robotic Drones Will Change the Future of the Israeli Military
An interview with the IDF’s chief of planning.
Big Duck, Andrew Sullivan, and the Inescapable Need to Condemn the Jewish State
The problem isn’t Israel’s policies. The problem is Israel.
An Up-Close and Personal Look at Sabbatical Debt Relief
Shmitah is a way of acknowledging that the earth is the Lord’s.
Ninety Lost Pages of the First Printing of a Seminal Work of Jewish Law Have Been Found
The Arba’ah Turim incunabulum.