The EU Must Stop Tolerating Hizballah
There is no “political wing.”
July 21, 2017
The Case of the Cattle-Prod-Wielding Rabbis and the Proper Limits of Religious Freedom
Courts can punish religious violence without getting involved in the theological nitty-gritty.
In a decision that made for eye-catching headlines, a federal court upheld the conviction of a group of Orthodox Jews—including some rabbis—who, for a fee, would kidnap and torture recalcitrant husbands to force them to give a get, or halakhic bill of divorce, to wives they had abandoned. The defendants claimed that their activities were in fulfillment of a religious requirement and were thus protected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). Unsurprisingly, this argument failed to convince. But the court cited two reasons for its decision where, Michael A. Helfand argues, one would have been more than sufficient:
July 21, 2017
What Does Israel Have against George Soros? Quite a Lot, Actually
An anti-Israel screed in the New York Times.
How the UK’s Labor Party, and Its Intelligentsia, Came to Accept Anti-Semitism
Israel has become a symbol of everything that’s supposedly wrong with the world.
The Case of the Cattle-Prod-Wielding Rabbis and the Proper Limits of Religious Freedom
Courts can punish religious violence without getting involved in the theological nitty-gritty.
The Problem with Herman Melville’s Reading of the Book of Jonah
Where is Jonah’s remorse?