The FBI’s Gratuitous and Futile Investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh’s Death
Ignoring terrorists who murdered Americans, while making hay over the accidental death of a Palestinian journalist.
November 17, 2022
Menachem Begin’s Minyan and Israel’s Future
The meaning of the first majority-Orthodox government.
Like every other Israeli prime minister, save Naftali Bennett, the Likud leader Menachem Begin was not a traditionally observant Jew. But he was far more sensitive to the Jewish religion than either his rival David Ben-Gurion or his mentor Vladimir Jabotinsky. Meir Soloveichik tells an illustrative anecdote, which occurred in 1977:
November 17, 2022
Menachem Begin’s Minyan and Israel’s Future
The meaning of the first majority-Orthodox government.
For the Expressive Individualist, Other People Are Just a Means to Self-Fulfilment
The ethics of the advice column.
The Life, Work, and Wanderings of Abraham Ibn Ezra
A medieval rabbi with “a love of language, dark humor, penchant for astrology, personal bitterness, and dour personality.”
What Israel Gains from Reconciliation with Turkey
Despite their differences, the two countries both see Iran as a threat.