American Policy Has Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East—For the Worse
A recipe for more war and suffering.
February 5, 2016
On the Wings of Vultures?
Making sense of a famous biblical image.
Just before the revelation at Sinai, God instructs Moses to tell the Israelites, “Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bear you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself” (Exodus 19:4). Except, argues Natan Slifkin, it is likely that the bird mentioned here is not an eagle at all—as nearly every translation has it—but a vulture, most likely the griffon vulture. This reading puts the verse in a new perspective:
February 5, 2016
The Left, Israel, and “Pinkwashing”
A useful lesson from George Orwell.
Brazilian Underdevelopment and the Case of the Missing American Jewish Economist
Whatever happened to Nathaniel Leff?
Britain’s Holocaust Orphans
How “the Boys” started their lives anew.
On the Wings of Vultures?
Making sense of a famous biblical image.