In Yemen, Iran Is Testing Weapons and Tactics for Future Use against Israel
The IDF must pay close attention.
October 4, 2019
Orthodox Schools Are Right to Oppose Government Intrusion—but Must Provide Their Students with Adequate Secular Educations
“If a father doesn’t teach his son a trade, it’s as if he taught him highway robbery.”
In March, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician Yisrael Aumann, a devout Jew, submitted an affidavit in support of several ḥaredi schools that were seeking relief from a set of regulatory fiats issued by New York State’s department of education. In the affidavit Aumann wrote of his own experience attending such schools in the 1930s and 40s, and argued that the education he received there set him on his own distinguished career path. More recently, Aumann has become increasingly concerned by reports from current and former students of ḥaredi schools who believe themselves to have been gravely disadvantaged by the inadequacy of the secular educations they received:
October 4, 2019
Israel, Alone among Nations, Stirs Artists to Silence Other Artists
Why a BDS activist shouldn’t get a prize named for Nelly Sachs.
Columbia University Celebrates Anti-Semitism
A visit from Mahathir Mohamad.
Pre-Yom Kippur Thoughts about Two Giants of Hebrew Literature, Separated by 900 Years
S.Y. Agnon, Solomon ibn Gabirol, and “The Sign.”
Orthodox Schools Are Right to Oppose Government Intrusion—but Must Provide Their Students with Adequate Secular Educations
“If a father doesn’t teach his son a trade, it’s as if he taught him highway robbery.”