CUNY Has an Anti-Semitism Problem. Can Sensitivity Training Solve It?
Relying on the very sensitivity-training complex that has allowed fashionable bigotries to fester and bloom.
July 5, 2022
Does Jewish Law Dictate Whether American Jews Should Be Pro-Life or Pro-Choice?
A question distinct from that of the halakhic permissibility of abortion.
According to the rabbinic tradition, Gentiles are entirely exempt from the 613 commandments that constitute the terms of the Jewish covenant with God, but they are obligated to follow seven laws given to Noah after the Flood. These include prohibitions on murder, theft, and so forth. With this distinction in mind, Michael Broyde tackles the question of how Orthodox Jews ought to respond to the question, raised anew by the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, of whether abortion should be legal, which in turn rests on the nature of halakhic attitudes toward abortion:
July 5, 2022
How the IRA and the PLO Became Part of the USSR’s Terrorist International
A forgotten piece of British history, with implications for Israel.
Does Jewish Law Dictate Whether American Jews Should Be Pro-Life or Pro-Choice?
A question distinct from that of the halakhic permissibility of abortion.
Fouad Ajami Appreciated the Arab World for Its Achievements, and Held It Responsible for Its Failures
Parallel lives.
Israeli Archaeologists Return an Elaborate Mosaic to Its Home
“One of the most beautiful treasures of the Roman era.”