President Biden Should Learn the Lessons of Past U.S. Attempts to Solve the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
When peace breaks out, the death count rises.
September 21, 2023
How the First Yom Kippur in Japan Put an 800-Year-Old Debate to the Test
In the midst of World War II, a group of exiled yeshiva students posed an urgent question.
In September 1941, the students of Poland’s Mir yeshiva found themselves in the Japanese city of Kobe, having fled Hitler’s advancing forces via Siberia. As the Jewish new year approached, they found themselves confronted with an urgent dilemma: on what day should they observe Yom Kippur? Nobody had yet clarified where Jewish law places the international dateline—a question first raised in the 12th century—and it was possible that they were to its east. Baruch Sterman and Judy Taubes Sterman explain:
September 21, 2023
Academic Freedom, for Anti-Semites Alone
A hate-fest at the University of Pennsylvania.
Theocracy Is No Cure for the Demoralization of Society
Lessons from the ayatollah.
The Pilgrims, the Rabbis, and the Bible
Englishmen discovering Judaism, from the 17th-century Netherlands to the 20th-century Upper West Side.
How the First Yom Kippur in Japan Put an 800-Year-Old Debate to the Test
In the midst of World War II, a group of exiled yeshiva students posed an urgent question.