How Israel’s Economic Prospects Relate to Its Diplomacy
A vigorous rebound from the economic crisis.
April 13, 2021
Reconsidering the Jewish Embrace of Humanism in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Did Samson Raphael Hirsch seek compromise or synthesis?
Born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Shimon Schwab (1908-1995) spent a formative five years studying in yeshivas in Poland and Lithuania, before returning to his native Germany and then immigrating to the U.S., where he became an influential congregational rabbi. Schwab was very much the heir of Samson Raphael Hirsch, the 19th-century theologian who pioneered the ideal of Torah im Derekh Erets—by which he meant a synthesis of Judaism and Western culture very different from the model of Orthodoxy that prevailed in Eastern Europe. Shmuel Lesher explains Schwab’s struggle with that legacy in the wake of the Shoah:
April 13, 2021
The Biden Administration Encourages Palestinian Terrorism and Intransigence
When you reward bad behavior, you get more of it.
Even Bashar al-Assad Recognized the Absurdity of Hizballah’s Claims to Har Dov
A spurious pretext for fighting Israel.
Reconsidering the Jewish Embrace of Humanism in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Did Samson Raphael Hirsch seek compromise or synthesis?
How Talmudic Legends Found Their Way to “Arabian Nights”
And their translator’s ambivalent attitude toward Jews.