The U.S. Can’t Afford to Abandon Its Base in Southern Syria
Doing so would grant a major victory to Iran.
July 6, 2018
Human Interactions, Not Reason, Are the Necessary Foundations of Faith
Rarely does someone abandon religion because of a question he cannot answer.
In Reason to Believe: Rational Explanations of Orthodox Jewish Faith, Chaim Jachter sets out to provide exactly what his subtitle promises. In so doing, he draws on a variety of medieval and modern rabbinic approaches to fundamental theological questions. While finding many of Jachter’s arguments both “compelling” and “convincing,” and others less so, David Wolkenfeld doubts that such appeals to reason can ever be the basis for true religious commitment. He cites his experience as a campus rabbi to explain why:
July 6, 2018
A Recent Bill Encapsulates Everything That’s Wrong with the Knesset—but Not For the Supposed Reason
A proposal to outlaw the filming of Israeli soldiers.
The Jewish and Arab Refugee Problems Are Not Alike
The persecution and expulsion of Jews from Arab lands.
Human Interactions, Not Reason, Are the Necessary Foundations of Faith
Rarely does someone abandon religion because of a question he cannot answer.
Republican Spain’s Bullfight in Honor of Maimonides
To coincide with the Jews’ readmission to Spain.