How to Handle the Iran Deal
Don’t dismantle, enforce.
December 9, 2016
Jacob, Laban, and a Biblical Lesson about Anti-Semitism
The first anti-Semite.
This week’s Torah reading of Vayyeitsei describes the patriarch Jacob’s extended stay with his uncle (and later father-in-law) Laban, who tries, and ultimately fails, to exploit Jacob through various acts of deceit. According to a midrash, cited in the Passover Haggadah, Laban “tried to destroy” Jacob and, had he succeeded, would have nipped the nascent Jewish nation in the bud. Jonathan Sacks tries to make sense of this surprising statement, which seems to exaggerate Laban’s malice, by understanding him as a paradigm of all future anti-Semites:
December 9, 2016
Aharon Barak Brings His War on Israeli Democracy to the Next Level
Israel’s supreme court didn't come to play fair; it came to win.
The U.S. Government Expresses Greater Concern over the Death of a Palestinian Than over American Citizens Murdered by Terrorists
Turning perpetrators into victims.
Jacob, Laban, and a Biblical Lesson about Anti-Semitism
The first anti-Semite.
The Russian-Born Rabbi Who Helped Shape American Orthodoxy and Saved Jews from Hitler
For him, the individual was paramount.