Israeli Towns and Villages in the West Bank Are a Political Issue, Not a Legal One
In the despair of the eliminationists is the best hope for a negotiated peace.
November 25, 2019
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Hebrew (and Hebraic) Poetry
And his longtime collaborator, Hyman Hurwitz.
Born in Prussia in 1796, Hyman Hurwitz spent much of his adult life in London, where he became a Jewish educator, scholar, poet, and thinker. Hurwitz was also a close friend of the renowned poet and Tory philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Between 1814 and the latter’s death in 1834, the two met almost daily; Coleridge translated some of Hurwitz’s Hebrew poetry into English and collaborated with Hurwitz in producing an anthology of talmudic tales. The two even jointly read a patriotic poem at a London synagogue. Lilach Naishtat Bornstein writes:
November 25, 2019
Israel’s Message to Iran, Syria, and Russia
Understanding last week’s extensive airstrikes.
Israel May Lose Benjamin Netanyahu Just When It Needs Him the Most
The charges are flimsy, but Netanyahu can’t fight them and govern the country.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Hebrew (and Hebraic) Poetry
And his longtime collaborator, Hyman Hurwitz.
Archaeologists, for the First Time, May Have Discovered a Medieval Bulgarian Synagogue
A building in a former Jewish neighborhood is definitely not a church.