Did the Obama Administration Withhold Documents That Could Have Undermined the Iran Deal?
The American public wouldn’t want al-Qaeda’s major supporter to have nuclear weapons.
November 3, 2017
Martin Luther: Anti-Semite and Hebraist
How Christian study of Hebrew shaped the reformation.
On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther is said to have nailed his 95 theses to a church door, thus setting off the Protestant Reformation. While Luther’s anti-Semitism is well known—he urged his followers “to set fire to their synagogues or schools,” urged “that their houses also be razed and destroyed,” and called the synagogue “a defiled bride, . . . an incorrigible whore, and an evil slut”—less well known is his debt to Christian Hebraism. Harry Freedman traces this connection to the Italian Renaissance philosopher Pico della Mirandola, who had made a thorough study of Judaism and especially Kabbalah:
November 3, 2017
Celebrate the Balfour Declaration—But Don’t Overdo It
We don’t need no stinking declarations.
In Honoring Saddam Hussein, the Palestinian Authority Shows Its Contempt for America
A twenty-foot statue.
Attention to the Names of God Can Explain the Binding of Isaac
A literary-midrashic approach.
Martin Luther: Anti-Semite and Hebraist
How Christian study of Hebrew shaped the reformation.