The West Shouldn’t Look to Russia’s Allies to Solve the Energy Crisis
Buying Iranian and Venezuelan oil helps Moscow.
September 7, 2022
How the Advent of the Printing Press Changed the Jewish Idea of the Sacred Book
The Jerusalem Talmud by pen and press.
Compiled around 400 CE in the Galilee, the Jerusalem Talmud was for the most part superseded by its Babylonian counterpart, compiled about a century later. Since it was less studied and less copied, there is much more uncertainty about the text itself—a problem that still dogs scholars today. These problems weighed on the mind of the scribe Rabbi Yeḥiel ben Yekutiel when he completed a manuscript of the Jerusalem Talmud in 1289, as he makes clear in the colophon, or scribe’s note. Yakov Meir observes:
September 7, 2022
Three Decades of University Cancel Culture and the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
The fault line dividing the old oppressive order from the new progressive one ran decisively through Palestine.
West Bank Terror Shows Why Separation from the Palestinians Won’t Bring Peace
The failed assumptions of Oslo.
What the Jewish Practice of Visiting Cemeteries Can Teach 21st-Century America
The story of a ḥasidic pilgrimage site in a small town in New York.
How the Advent of the Printing Press Changed the Jewish Idea of the Sacred Book
The Jerusalem Talmud by pen and press.