The U.S. Has Won Its Latest Battle with Iran. But the War Isn’t Over
What’s next?
January 14, 2020
Israel’s Never-Ending Conversion Dilemma
Wink-wink, win-win?
According to Israel’s Law of Return, anyone with even a single Jewish grandparent is eligible to immigrate and become naturalized as a citizen. The result is that there are now as many as 400,000 non-Arab Israelis who are not Jewish by the far stricter standards of the chief rabbinate, which has sole legal authority over conversion, marriage, and divorce. Thus these citizens cannot marry Jews, and, if men, their children will not be considered Jewish. To convert they must undergo a rigorous process that involves convincing a rabbinic tribunal of their commitment to scrupulous halakhic observance. In When the State Winks, the anthropologist Michal Kravel-Tovi examines the way the rabbinate balances pressures to convert these Israelis to Judaism with its religious standards. Shlomo Brody writes in his review:
January 14, 2020
During His Long Reign, Sultan Qaboos of Oman Fostered Ties with Israel
And with Iran.
Israel’s Never-Ending Conversion Dilemma
Wink-wink, win-win?
The Jewish Princess Who Almost Became a Roman Empress—and the Enduring Anti-Semitic Fears of Her Opponents
The ancient origins of one among many paranoias.
A Single Word on an Ancient Jar Could Upend Historians’ Understanding of the Borders of Biblical Israel
Abel Beth Maacah.