Hamas’s Deadly Escalation at the Gaza Border
The goal: to take a hostage and bargain for the end of the embargo.
October 16, 2018
How Medieval Rabbis Influenced Their Christian Contemporaries’ Bible Commentaries
When Rashbam talked Torah with monks.
The 11th and 12th centuries constituted a golden age of Jewish biblical scholarship in Europe with Rashi, his grandson Shmuel ben Meir (Rashbam), Abraham ibn Ezra, and others writing glosses that are still studied today. In her new book In Hebreo: The Victorine Exegesis of the Bible in the Light of its Northern French Jewish Sources, Montse Leyra-Curia explores how these works likely shaped Christian clergy’s understanding of the Hebrew Bible. Martin Lockshin writes in his review:
October 16, 2018
How to Get a Better Deal from Iran
Europeans, Democrats, and pushback on the ground.
By Turning against the Jews, Women’s Studies Admits Its Bankruptcy
Celebrating anti-Israel screeds.
How Medieval Rabbis Influenced Their Christian Contemporaries’ Bible Commentaries
When Rashbam talked Torah with monks.
Two Forgotten Poems by a Distinguished Yiddish Poetess
Of refugees and pigeons.