The Knesset Has Resumed Its Business, but Both Sides Have Broken Unwritten Rules
Was Yuli Edelstein justified in keeping the Knesset closed?
March 27, 2020
For Medieval Jews, Fantasies of Jewish Kingdoms Served a Polemical Purpose
A way to refute Christian claims that God had abandoned the Jews.
As early as the 3rd century CE, Christian writers argued that Jews lived in exile, with their Temple destroyed and their sovereignty lost, because God had chosen to punish them for their rejection of Jesus. Jewish thinkers had a simple rebuttal: God was indeed punishing His people with exile—as the biblical prophets had said He would—but was doing so because they had failed to observe His Law. In the Middle Ages, as Jewish-Christian relations became more intimate, Jews developed what Michael Weiner argues is a different sort of answer: imagining that in some faraway land, Jews maintained their political independence:
March 27, 2020
Now Is Not the Time to Extend Sanctions Relief to Iran
The suffering caused by the coronavirus is the fault of the regime.
As with Past Plagues, Beware an Outbreak of Anti-Semitism
There have already been telling signs.
For Medieval Jews, Fantasies of Jewish Kingdoms Served a Polemical Purpose
A way to refute Christian claims that God had abandoned the Jews.
There Can Be No Freedom without Morality
As society loses its moral grounding, cooperation becomes impossible, while the state is forced to tend to the consequences of moral collapse.