Israel Should Use Information Warfare against Hizballah
A crippling blow without firing a single bullet.
August 31, 2020
In Commanding Us to Become Prophets, the Torah Demands That We Cultivate Our Ethical Sensibilities
To be morally responsible, we must commit to the good in advance of grasping its requirements in full.
According to the great 20th-century sage Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Judaism considers prophecy a “norm,” such that “each person is obliged to aspire to this rank [of prophet], that every man should make a supreme effort to scale the mountain of the Lord, until he reaches the pinnacle of revelation of the Divine Presence.” Behind this claim is Soloveitchik’s belief that Judaism is “democratic to its very core,” and therefore prophecy must at least potentially be available to every Jew. Alex Ozar delves into this argument, its precedents and parallels in Jewish thought, and its implications:
August 31, 2020
Why They Scrawl “Free Palestine” on Synagogues
Thanks to intersectionality, the slogan has assumed the moral weight of “Black Lives Matter.”
The Geopolitics and Ideology behind Iranian and Turkish Opposition to the Israel-UAE Deal
One of many “tectonic shifts.”
Searching for Family Secrets in the Italian Jewish Past
Mixed Messages.
In Commanding Us to Become Prophets, the Torah Demands That We Cultivate Our Ethical Sensibilities
To be morally responsible, we must commit to the good in advance of grasping its requirements in full.