Qatar’s Double Game and the Complicity of American Universities
A U.S. ally and a leading funder of terror.
May 12, 2017
Stoning the Blasphemer: A Biblical Tale with a Message of Inclusiveness
Putting an odd anecdote in context.
At the very end of this week’s Torah reading of Emor, we find a brief narrative passage (Leviticus 24:10-23) that seems oddly placed amid laws concerning holidays and sabbatical years and regulations pertaining to priests and the Tabernacle. The story involves a man, the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father, who gets into a fistfight with “a certain Israelite” and then invokes God’s ineffable name in cursing his opponent. When Moses hears of this he has the son of the Egyptian father incarcerated and awaits divine instruction. God explains that the punishment for blasphemy is death by stoning, and the people duly inflict this punishment on the blasphemer. In attempting to read the episode in context, Adriane Leveen finds a surprising message:
May 12, 2017
The Syrian Regime Is Regaining Control, but Tenuously
Assad’s hollow crown.
What a New French President Means for French Jews, and Israel
Approval and criticism.
The Associated Press’s Secret Deal with Nazi Germany
Did they provide a conduit for Hitler’s propaganda?
Stoning the Blasphemer: A Biblical Tale with a Message of Inclusiveness
Putting an odd anecdote in context.