What Opponents of Sanctions on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Get Wrong
Neither useless nor counterproductive.
April 10, 2019
In the Negev, Religion Is Making the Desert Bloom
Mizraḥi Jewry and the history of Israel’s southern frontier.
Both in and out of office, one of David Ben-Gurion’s enduring passions was settling the Negev, the vast desert in southern Israel, and turning it into an agricultural powerhouse. Reviewing two recent books about this part of the Jewish state, Allan Arkush notes that “while development has not taken place on the scale or in the way that Ben-Gurion imagined, Israel has, in fact, made a large swath of the desert bloom.” Arkush begins with Yael Zerubavel’s Desert in the Promised Land:
April 10, 2019
How Israel Should Respond to a U.S. Peace Plan
Emphasize its “red lines” and avoid unilateral withdrawals.
Since George Washington, Belief—in No Particular Religion—Has Been Part of the American Credo
A nation under God.
In the Negev, Religion Is Making the Desert Bloom
Mizraḥi Jewry and the history of Israel’s southern frontier.
The Great Jewish Cartographers of the 14th Century
Abraham and Jehuda Cresques.