American Charities, and Even Tax Dollars, Are Funding Hamas
The government must crack down once again.
January 13, 2017
For the Talmud, Divine Law Is Not Absolute Law
Authority without absolutism.
Responding to a series of essays on her recent book, What’s Divine about Divine Law?, Christine Hayes elaborates on its central thesis: namely, that the talmudic rabbis—following ideas found in the Bible itself—saw halakhah as reflective of the divine will but not as an immutable, abstract reality existing independently of human interpretation. This view differs from that expressed in certain apocryphal works and in those of the Jewish philosopher Philo. For the latter, divine law is much like the Greek idea of “natural law,” which is derived by reason from the reality of the universe. And yet, Hayes argues, there are important similarities between the rabbinic view of divine law and the Greek view of natural law, especially as understood by the Stoics:
January 13, 2017
How Israel Is Containing the “Knife Intifada”
Social media and targeted retaliation.
America Still Needs Hard Power, and the Willingness to Use It
Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
A Polish Rabbi’s Words to a Community Facing Nazism abroad and Anti-Semitism at Home
On the Edge of the Abyss.
For the Talmud, Divine Law Is Not Absolute Law
Authority without absolutism.