For Israelis, Anti-Zionism Kills
What’s worse: to be denied membership in a country club or to be driven from your ancestral homeland?
December 14, 2018
How the Original Manuscript of Maimonides’ First Mature Work Made It from Morocco to Jerusalem
Via Cairo, Aleppo, and Oxford.
The great Jewish philosopher and rabbi Moses Maimonides completed his commentary on the Mishnah—the earlier stratum of the Talmud—in 1161, at the age of thirty. Although he had already settled in Cairo by then, he began work on the commentary seven years earlier, when he was probably still living in Morocco. Much of the original manuscript remains extant, and resides in Israel’s National Library; Daniel Lipson explains how it got there:
December 14, 2018
Hizballah’s Manufacture of Precision Missiles Poses a Strategic Threat to Israel That Grows Graver by the Day
Lebanon, unlike Syria, has been spared Israeli airstrikes.
How Jewish Studies Came to Harvard, with Anti-Semitism Hovering Nearby
A “view of Judaism on its own terms.”
Sweden’s Cycle of Anti-Semitism
Right, left, and Islamist.
How the Original Manuscript of Maimonides’ First Mature Work Made It from Morocco to Jerusalem
Via Cairo, Aleppo, and Oxford.