The IDF’s First Investigation of Its Conduct on October 7 Is Out
Describing the battle at Kibbutz Be’eri, the report shows numerous failures.
July 12, 2024
Is Judaism Really About Love?
That’s the argument of a new book by the rabbi Shai Held. It doesn’t quite hold up.
The New York rabbi Shai Held’s new book is—writes Benjamin Weiner, a rabbi in Amherst—“an elaborate treatise, blending polemic and apologetics with theological insight and moral exhortation.” In Judaism Is about Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life, Held “measures up the sprawling mass of Jewish tradition and claims, against incredulous Christians stretching back to Saint Paul, that love has a great deal to do with it.” Is that right?
July 12, 2024
The Best Books to Read on the Soviet Roots of Contemporary Anti-Zionism
Cheap and easy conspiracy theory from the past to the present.
How Earned Is the Legend of Delmore Schwartz?
A new collection of the American Jewish writer’s work shows a core of brilliance surrounded by dreck.
Is Judaism Really About Love?
That’s the argument of a new book by the rabbi Shai Held. It doesn’t quite hold up.
The 20th-Century Rabbi Who Helped Popularize Kabbalah
Ashlag’s ladder to the Zohar.