While the White House Talks of Palestinian Statehood, Mahmoud Abbas Talks of a “Day of Rage”
All you need to know about the chances for peace.
January 30, 2020
How the Hebrew Bible, and the Apocrypha, Created Models for Sustaining Judaism in Exile
Joseph, Daniel, and Tobit.
Most of the Bible deals with experiences very different from those of Jews living in the Diaspora, who must struggle to uphold their religious obligations in the face of persecution and/or social pressure. But the figures of Joseph in Egypt and Daniel in Babylon stand out as archetypes of piety in exile. Phillip J. Long writes:
January 30, 2020
Donald Trump’s Partition Plan and Its Precursors
International backing may matter more than Palestinian acceptance.
Don’t Base the Fight against Anti-Semitism and for Jewish Sovereignty on the “Lessons of the Holocaust”
To fight its enemies, the Jewish state should distance itself from victimhood.
Yemen’s Millennia-Long Connection to the Land of Israel
From Sheba to Jerusalem.
How the Hebrew Bible, and the Apocrypha, Created Models for Sustaining Judaism in Exile
Joseph, Daniel, and Tobit.