Critical Race Theory Poses a Threat to Jews, and Not Only Because of Its Use by Anti-Zionists
Jews, its proponents claim, have gained unmerited success and power by attaining “whiteness.”
June 9, 2021
How Kabbalists Reinterpreted the Menorah as the Perfect Metaphor for Their Cosmology
In the Middle Ages, one of Judaism’s most enduring symbols took on new meaning.
In many prayerbooks that follow the traditions of Middle Eastern Jewry, as well as of some Ḥasidim, it is common to find a diagram of a seven-branch menorah (like the one found in the two temples) inscribed with biblical or liturgical verses. Such pictures go back to the Middle Ages, when early Jewish mystics began to ascribe kabbalistic significance to one of the oldest and most enduring Jewish symbols. Naturally, as Chen Malul explains, many focused on the mystically meaningful number seven and its relation to the s’firot, or divine emanations connecting God’s essence to the world:
June 9, 2021
Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Cynical Use of the Palestinian Cause
He opposed Palestinian independence.
The Recent Arab Riots in Israel Were a Revolt against Political Integration
Feeding on the resentments of those left behind by economic progress.
Ed Miliband’s Shallow Vision of Human Flourishing
How godless and deracinated liberalism gives way to anti-Semitic radicalism.
How Kabbalists Reinterpreted the Menorah as the Perfect Metaphor for Their Cosmology
In the Middle Ages, one of Judaism’s most enduring symbols took on new meaning.