Israel Has Made Progress in Limiting China’s Involvement in Infrastructure Projects, but Risks Still Remain
Endangering ties with the U.S. and Israel’s own security.
June 17, 2020
Simone Weil’s “Tormented Flirtation” with Catholicism and Her Shameful Silence about the Holocaust
A tale of two Jewish siblings.
Born in 1909, Simone Weil developed a reputation as one of France’s most influential philosophers only after her untimely death at the age of thirty-four. Her older brother André, by contrast, lived to the age of ninety-two and received many accolades for his contributions to theoretical mathematics. While the two were raised in a thoroughly secular Jewish Parisian home, both had a markedly mystical bent in their thinking: André was fascinated by Hindu thought and particularly by the Bhagavad Gita, and spoke often of the beauty of mathematics; Simone’s twin philosophical occupations were radical politics and questions of faith rooted in what one reader termed her “tormented flirtation with Catholicism.”
June 17, 2020
Why Jews Should Fear the Anti-Western Current in Recent Protests
Pulling down statues and bashing Israel.
Public-Health Concerns May Perhaps Justify Shuttering Churches and Synagogues, but Houses of Worship Should Never Be Considered “Inessential”
Religion isn’t one “hobby” among others.
The U.S. Can Provide the Iranian People with a Better Voice of America
Exposing the truth behind the Islamist regime’s disinformation campaigns.
Simone Weil’s “Tormented Flirtation” with Catholicism and Her Shameful Silence about the Holocaust
A tale of two Jewish siblings.