Europe Is Convinced That Reprimanding Israel Will Help Solve Its Own Middle East Problem
Despite protestations to the contrary, Brussels cares about neither the Palestinians nor international law.
May 22, 2020
In the Book of Numbers, a Prototype for the Two Sides of Jewish Peoplehood
And a message for Yom Yershalayim, Jerusalem Day.
This Sabbath’s Torah reading of Bamidbar consists of the opening chapters of the book of Numbers, which begins and ends with God commanding Moses to take a census of the Jewish people. To the great 11th-century commentator Rashi, the repeated counting of the Israelites is an expression of God’s love; to his more literal-minded grandson Shmuel ben Meir (known as the Rashbam), it is a practical measure for a people readying to go into battle. Lawrence Kaplan argues that these two approaches are complementary:
May 22, 2020
Israel and Jews on Ramadan Television in the Arab World
Saudi TV is sympathetic, while Egyptian TV isn’t.
In the Book of Numbers, a Prototype for the Two Sides of Jewish Peoplehood
And a message for Yom Yershalayim, Jerusalem Day.
British Public Figures Are Worried about the Effect of the Coronavirus on Ethnic Minorities—Excluding Jews
The disease has had a disproportionate impact on British Jewry.
A 2,000-Year-Old Underground Complex Discovered in Jerusalem
But its purpose is a mystery.