Facing Iranian Attack, America Stands Down
How Tehran is supporting Hamas in Iraq.
October 26, 2023
Medieval Spain’s Great Jewish Historian
Abraham Ibn Daud and his Book of the Tradition.
I’ll end on a less dire note with this introduction to the life and work of Abraham Ibn Daud (1110–1180), a Cordovan rabbi who spent most of his adult life in Toledo, and could be considered the Diaspora’s first Jewish historian. Tamar Marvin explains his most famous work, Sefer ha-Kabbalah, or the Book of the Tradition:
October 26, 2023
Qatar Plays Both Arsonist and Firefighter
Funding hostage-taking while negotiating hostages’ release.
The Condescension and Moral Bankruptcy of Hamas’s Western Cheerleaders
“Men butchered legions of people in your name. Hooray for them and hooray for you!”
A Forgotten Episode of Holocaust-Era Heroism
And the anti-Semitic Polish writer who backed it.
Medieval Spain’s Great Jewish Historian
Abraham Ibn Daud and his Book of the Tradition.