After Decades of Failure, UNIFIL Is Coming to an End
Lebanon will say farewell to a 47-year-old interim force.
August 29, 2025
Deuteronomy’s Judicial Revolution
Separation of powers.
This week’s Torah reading of Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18–21:9) focuses much of its attention on the appointment of judges and their responsibilities. In his analysis of the text—at times forced but in its general thrust convincing—Bernard M. Levinson argues that it lays out a vision that anticipates two of America’s most important constitutional arrangements:
August 29, 2025
China Is Filling Russia’s Shoes as Iran’s Superpower Patron
But its goals are more modest.
The Twisted Moral Cosmology of Anti-Zionism
The suicide bomber now flows seamlessly into the icon of the Palestinian Christ.
Deuteronomy’s Judicial Revolution
Separation of powers.
How Chaim Potok’s Fiction Exposes the Music of Religious Life
Revisiting The Chosen.