At America’s Best Universities, Biblical Religion Is a Curiosity, if Not a Menace
When an administrator at Columbia told Jewish students to violate Rosh Hashanah.
October 20, 2021
At America’s Best Universities, Biblical Religion Is a Curiosity, if Not a Menace
When an administrator at Columbia told Jewish students to violate Rosh Hashanah.
At the time of Columbia University’s founding in 1784, notes Meir Soloviechik, the leader of the local synagogue, Gershom Mendes Seixas, was made a member of its board of regents. A Jewish student even gave a commencement address, composed by Seixas, in Hebrew. In the 20th century, Columbia attracted numerous Jews with the relaxation of quotas, and was the first secular university to create a chair in Jewish history. Barnard College, Columbia’s all-women’s school, was itself founded by a Jewish woman, and today has a large number of Orthodox Jewish students.
October 20, 2021
While America Dithers, Iran Moves Closer to Obtaining a Nuclear Weapon
Time is on the mullahs’ side.
From Training in Post-World War II Germany to Fighting a Desperate Battle against Egypt, an Israeli General Tells His Story
The tank is iron, but the man is steel.
Vienna’s Most Controversial Statue Is of a Still-Beloved Mayor Who Wedded Anti-Semitism to Democratic Politics
Karl Lueger inspired Theodor Herzl and Adolf Hitler—in very different ways.
An Israeli Diver Discovered a Crusader Sword at the Bottom of the Sea
Encrusted in shells but well preserved.