The Moral Blindness of Jewish Anti-Zionism
A younger generation of American Jews faces a difficult choice.
May 31, 2024
Simon bar Yohai and the Talmud’s Reckoning with the Unworldly
Two rabbis in a cave, and three women outside it.
According to a well-known talmudic tale, the 2nd-century sage Simon bar Yohai, wanted by the Romans for seditious comments, spent thirteen years hiding in a cave with his son Elazar. The two buried themselves in sand up to their necks and spent all their time studying Torah, nourished by a spring and a carob tree. Their emergence from the cave was celebrated on Sunday on the holiday of Lag ba-Omer, but in the Talmud’s telling it was a difficult transition, and Elazar’s subsequent life was far from one of straightforward saintliness.
May 31, 2024
The Political Roots of the Spanish Turn against Israel
Why recognizing Catalonian independence isn’t the correct response.
A Wing of Mahmoud Abbas’s Party Took Part in the October 7 Massacres
Armed and not especially moderate.
American Yankees in Polish Yeshivas
When a friendly football game was a step too far.
Simon bar Yohai and the Talmud’s Reckoning with the Unworldly
Two rabbis in a cave, and three women outside it.