American “National-Security Leaders” Rally for Mahmoud Abbas
Putting trust in the reliably anti-Israel “international community.”
March 15, 2018
The “Confession” of One of the New World’s First Rabbis
The man who would ban Spinoza first wrote poetry in Brazil.
Born to a converso family in Portugal, and raised as a Jew in Amsterdam, Isaac Aboab de Fonseca is best known to posterity for signing the rabbinic ban expelling Benedict Spinoza from the city’s Jewish community in 1656. But from 1642 to 1654 he served as the rabbi of the congregation in Recife, in Dutch Brazil. Most of Recife’s Jews were themselves from Portuguese converso families and had reverted to Judaism when northeastern Brazil came under Dutch rule. Oren Zweiter describes a remarkable work of Aboab’s:
March 15, 2018
The Dangers of Diplomacy with Dictators
Iran’s mullahs are likely to scrap the nuclear deal the moment doing so becomes convenient.
Islamic State’s Next Target: The Temple Mount
A new accord between IS and the Islamic Movement.
The “Confession” of One of the New World’s First Rabbis
The man who would ban Spinoza first wrote poetry in Brazil.
A Millennia-Old Tomb Sheds Light on Pre-Biblical Canaan
The rulers of Armageddon?