The President Shouldn’t Make a Lame-Duck Bid to Renew the “Peace Process”
It will only bind the hands of his successor.
October 28, 2016
How Two Leading Orthodox Rabbis Responded to the Scopes Trial
Debating Darwin in synagogue.
In 1926, a year after the Scopes trial brought the theological implications of the theory of evolution to public attention in the U.S, two prominent New York Orthodox rabbis—Leo Jung of the Jewish Center and David de Sola Pool of Shearith Israel—engaged in a heated exchange on the subject in the pages of the Orthodox community’s main organ. While in many ways similar in education and outlook, the two took opposite positions on the question of whether Darwinism and Judaism were compatible. Rachel S.A. Pear argues that the differences stemmed as much from their respective communal contexts as from philosophical and hermeneutic abstractions.
October 28, 2016
Britain Engages in Lawfare against Its Own Military
With implications for the U.S. and Israel.
A Muslim’s Memoir of Apostasy, and His Call for Reforming Islam
Atheist Muslim.
How Two Leading Orthodox Rabbis Responded to the Scopes Trial
Debating Darwin in synagogue.
An Ancient Papyrus May Be the Oldest Known Hebrew Document to Mention Jerusalem. But Is It Genuine?
A 7th-century-BCE note about wine?