Mahmoud Abbas’s Desperate Boycott Strategy
Endorsing BDS won’t help the Palestinian cause.
February 28, 2018
John Adams Comes to the Knesset
Two American vice-presidents and the Jewish yearning to return to the land of Israel.
Welcoming Vice-President Mike Pence to the Knesset, both Benjamin Netanyahu and the opposition leader Isaac Herzog cited a statement made by America’s first vice-president, John Adams, in 1819: “I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.” Meir Soloveichik comments on the quotation, its context, and its meaning:
February 28, 2018
Inaction in Syria Hurts U.S. Interests
And allows the slaughter to continue.
John Adams Comes to the Knesset
Two American vice-presidents and the Jewish yearning to return to the land of Israel.
Judaism after the Temple’s Destruction
For some time, Jews assumed it would be rebuilt imminently.
The Line Separating Scientific Empiricism from the Pursuit of the Irrational Is Not So Clear as Steven Pinker Would Like It to Be
Smug secularism, curiosity, and the Enlightenment.