Strengthening the Abraham Accords at Sea
Israel’s navy can help its new Arab allies and the U.S.
May 25, 2023
How the Dislocation and Ferment of the 15th Century Shaped Judaism’s Greatest Legal Code
Joseph Karo’s journeys.
Born in Spain in 1488, Joseph Karo was taken by his family to nearby Portugal during the expulsion of 1492—before they fled again five years later to avoid forced conversation. Karo would go on to write magisterial commentaries on the seminal halakhic compendia of Moses Maimonides and Jacob ben Asher, before codifying his own scholarship in the Shulḥan Arukh—a Jewish legal handbook invested with an authority given to no work since the Babylonian Talmud. He was also one of the leading kabbalists of his day. Tamar Marvin describes his early life and intellectual formation:
May 25, 2023
The Cognitively Disabled Soldiers Who Handle an Elite IDF Unit’s Most Sensitive Materials
“My dad is a lieutenant colonel, and I wanted to follow him to the army and volunteer.”
How the Dislocation and Ferment of the 15th Century Shaped Judaism’s Greatest Legal Code
Joseph Karo’s journeys.
The Gospel Comes to Streaming Television—without Demonizing Jews
The Chosen could alter how a whole generation of Christians envisions the Jewishness of Jesus.
Like the Ancestors of Today’s Dogs, Israeli Jackals May Be Undergoing Domestication
Are the jackals joining us?