Gifts to Iran Won’t Improve the Dire Situation in Yemen
Washington’s misguided appeasement of the Houthis.
February 9, 2021
Not Being a U.S. Priority Can Benefit Israel
Benign neglect.
In the Israeli press, there has been no small amount of handwringing over the fact that President Biden has not yet placed a phone call to Prime Minister Netanyahu—to the extent that the latter felt compelled to make statement yesterday about his confidence that relations with the Biden administration are already off to a good start. Lahav Harkov suggests that such concern is unnecessary:
February 9, 2021
Not Being a U.S. Priority Can Benefit Israel
Benign neglect.
Remembering the Man Who Liberated the Dead Sea Scrolls and Popularized Knowledge of Ancient Israel
Defending Israeli archaeology from perverse slanders.
One of Renaissance Spain’s Leading Catholic Scholars May Have Been a Secret Jew
Alfonso de Zamora.
How a 19th-Century Russian Rabbi Used the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant to Understand Two of the Talmud’s Great Ethical Debates
The Malbim’s critique of universalism.