Iran’s Expanding Influence in Africa Is a Threat to Peace
Proselytization, charitable works, and terrorism.
September 6, 2018
Faith and Doubt in Psalm 27
From a naïve confidence to an enduring hopefulness.
In many Jewish communities, the 27th psalm, which begins with the words “The Lord is my light and my salvation, of whom shall I be afraid?,” is read daily in the month before Rosh Hashanah and continues to be read until the end of Sukkot. It opens, as some modern commentators have noted, with expressions of the speaker’s unshakable faith in God and the confidence it gives him. A few verses later it abruptly changes tone, while switching from referring to God in the third person to addressing Him directly, as the speaker pleads that God not abandon him. The final verses return to expressions of faith, but this time in a hopeful—albeit not confident—key. Benjamin Sommer tries to make sense of this progression:
September 6, 2018
A U.S. Court Reverses a Troubling Decision on Hamas Terror
A murdered teenager’s life isn’t worth less because he lived in the West Bank.
Like It or Not, Benjamin Netanyahu Is Right about Strength and Weakness
Military might defeated Nazism.
Faith and Doubt in Psalm 27
From a naïve confidence to an enduring hopefulness.
Germany Has a Nazi Problem. It Also Has a Refugee Problem
Understanding what happened in Chemnitz.