The Torture and Execution of a Wrestler Undermines the Islamic Republic at Home and Abroad
The death of Navid Afkari.
September 16, 2020
The Faked “Gospel” That Duped Scholars and Revealed Academia’s Prejudices and Foibles
The hoax of “Jesus’ wife.”
In 2012, Karen King, a Harvard professor specializing in Gnosticism and early Christianity, announced to much hoopla that she had in her possession a fragmentary text of a forgotten gospel in which Jesus discusses Mary and refers to his wife. Four years later, the journalist Ariel Sabar revealed that the document—written on papyrus in the ancient Coptic language—was in fact a forgery. Matti Friedman reviews Sabar’s recent book, Veritas, which recounts the story:
September 16, 2020
The U.S. Ought Not Allow a Nuclear Saudi Arabia
The bitter fruit of the Iran deal, harvested by China.
No, Israel Doesn’t Prefer Undemocratic Regimes in the Middle East
Switzerland can embrace Iran, but Jerusalem can’t embrace Abu Dhabi?
The Faked “Gospel” That Duped Scholars and Revealed Academia’s Prejudices and Foibles
The hoax of “Jesus’ wife.”
The Struggle to Maintain the Sanctity of Jewish Burial in the Face of the Coronavirus
Kindness of truth.