The U.S. Should Discourage Its Arab Allies from Reconciling with Syria
Providing loopholes to American sanctions won’t end the war.
October 11, 2021
Remembering a Great Rabbi Who Brought Religion and Science Together
Moshe Tendler saw the hand of God under the microscope.
While some thinkers have seen inherent tension between faith and science and others have seen them as separate but complementary perspectives on the world, Rabbi Moshe Tendler—who died last month at the age of ninety-five—saw the two as working together, in a quintessentially Jewish fashion. He was best known for applying new medical knowledge to the thorniest questions of Jewish law, and applying Jewish law to new medical technologies. David M. Weinberg writes:
October 11, 2021
Needlessly Condemning Israel Hasn’t Bought France the Good Will of Its Restive Muslim Population
Double standards on terrorism.
Time for Stopping the Islamic Republic’s Nuclear Program Is Running Out
The U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan scared Tehran out of building a bomb. It’s not scared any longer.
Remembering a Great Rabbi Who Brought Religion and Science Together
Moshe Tendler saw the hand of God under the microscope.
Osip Mandelstam Reclaimed His Jewish Heritage When He Rediscovered His Poetic Voice and Turned against Soviet Tyranny
But a new biography argues that the poet wasn’t very Jewish or even very anti-Soviet.