Iran Exports the Islamic Revolution to West Africa
Cultivating terror networks and threatening U.S. forces.
March 19, 2021
In the Laws of Offerings, the Bible Teaches an Important Lesson about the Perils of Political Power
The Jewish approach to leadership is an unusual combination of realism and idealism.
In this week’s reading of Vayikra (Leviticus 1-5), the Torah details a number of ritual sacrifices, among them those brought to atone for an accidental sin. These come in four varieties, dependent on the person seeking atonement: for an individual, the high priest, the Sanhedrin (as the Talmud understands the passage), and the nasi—a word meaning “president” in modern Hebrew but originally meaning chieftain or leader. Examining the treatment of the last instance, the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks derives a powerful meditation on political theory:
March 19, 2021
The Conspicuous Absence of the American President from the Israeli Election Campaign
Which leader can better manage without America?
A Washington Think Tank Wants to Remake John Quincy Adams into an Anti-Israel Anti-Interventionist, but He Was Neither
The president favored “the rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.”
In the Laws of Offerings, the Bible Teaches an Important Lesson about the Perils of Political Power
The Jewish approach to leadership is an unusual combination of realism and idealism.