The Palestinian Authority Rejected Medical Assistance Rather Than Accept the Gulf States’ Thaw with Israel
While Arab frustration with Mahmoud Abbas grows, Europe ignores his intransigence.
July 9, 2020
The Death of Moses and the Limits of Human Perfectibility
And the message of the breaking of the tablets.
In conversation with Mark Gerson, William Kristol—after reminiscing about the golden age of New York City sports—discusses Deuteronomy 34:10, the antepenultimate verse of the Torah: “And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face.” Among much else, Kristol finds therein wisdom about the limits of human perfectibility: even Moses, this incomparably great man, died disappointed, unable due to his own failings to enter the promised land. The two also discuss as Moses’ singular act the smashing of the tablets, traditionally commemorated today, on the fast of the seventeenth of the month Tammuz. (Audio, 29 minutes.)
July 9, 2020
Now Is Not the Time to Shorten Israelis’ Military Service
Nor should the Knesset continue to kick the can down the road.
The Dangers of Turkey’s Anti-Western Adventurism
From Somalia to Iraq, Ankara supports Islamists.
The Death of Moses and the Limits of Human Perfectibility
And the message of the breaking of the tablets.
The “Hidden Heretics” Who Remain Part of the Orthodox World
Double lives.