Hamas Foments Violence, While Keeping Gaza Quiet
It doesn’t want a repeat of 2014.
October 30, 2015
Lot’s Child Sacrifice—and Abraham’s
One offered his daughters to the mob, the other his son to God.
This week’s Torah reading begins with Abraham’s reception of three mysterious guests, a gesture held up in rabbinic literature as a model of righteous hospitality. It then juxtaposes two of the most dramatic stories in Genesis: the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the Binding of Isaac. Sarah Rindner notes important parallels between these passages. In Sodom, Abraham’s nephew Lot imitates his uncle’s hospitality by inviting the same mysterious guests into his home, but when a mob of Sodomites demands that he turn them over, he engages instead in his own act of child sacrifice:
October 30, 2015
Why Should Palestinians Learn about the Holocaust? What Was the Arab Role in It?
Watch the conversation.
What Does the Jewish Future Hold?
There’s reason for optimism.
A British Parliamentarian Goes on an Anti-Semitic Rant
He also claimed the stabbings haven’t happened.
Lot’s Child Sacrifice—and Abraham’s
One offered his daughters to the mob, the other his son to God.