Israel Is Courting Saudi Arabia by Confronting Iran
The probable messages behind Monday night’s airstrikes.
October 4, 2023
Ecclesiastes’ Theology of Distraction
Lessons from spiritual whiplash.
Thanks to the Internet, it has become commonplace to say that we now live in an age of distraction. But, Erica Brown writes, distraction might not always be a bad thing. She finds evidence for her case in the book of Ecclesiastes—which will be read in many synagogues this Saturday—and its titular preacher’s investigation of the human condition in all its varied forms:
October 4, 2023
American Involvement Has Not Made the United Nations Any Better
The perils of engagement for engagement’s sake.
Ecclesiastes’ Theology of Distraction
Lessons from spiritual whiplash.
Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Philo-Semites
“The most glorious Nation that ever inhabited the earth.”
Jerusalem’s Museum of Italian Jewry, and the Synagogue It Houses
Neither Sephardi nor Ashkenazi.