Mahmoud Abbas’s Desperate Boycott Strategy
Endorsing BDS won’t help the Palestinian cause.
February 28, 2018
Judaism after the Temple’s Destruction
For some time, Jews assumed it would be rebuilt imminently.
In 70 CE, Roman centurions—in the midst of quashing a Jewish revolt against the emperor’s authority—sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple. This event, writes Martin Goodman, “demanded a religious explanation” in the eyes of most Jews. In an excerpt from his new book on the history of Judaism, he explains how they reacted to this trauma:
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.