Escalating Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran are Another Legacy of the Nuclear Deal
With leverage over U.S. policy, Iran doesn’t need nuclear weapons to cause trouble.
January 6, 2016
The Forced Convert to Christianity who Covertly Defended Judaism and the Jews
He professed a religion he continued to scorn.
In 1391, in the wake of a wave of bloody pogroms that swept Spain, Profayt Duran, along with tens of thousands of other Jews, was baptized a Christian. Privately, however, he continued to write treatises on Hebrew grammar and the Jewish calendar and to polemicize vigorously against Christianity. Reviewing Maud Kozodoy’s The Secret Faith of Maestre Honoratus, the first full-length biography of Duran, Frederic Raphael writes:
January 6, 2016
Why Israel’s Official Rabbinate Should Relinquish Some of Its Power
It has reduced rabbis to bureaucrats subject to the temptations of patronage and corruption.
Could the U.S. Have Done More to Slow the Progress of the Holocaust?
And why didn’t it?
The Forced Convert to Christianity who Covertly Defended Judaism and the Jews
He professed a religion he continued to scorn.
A New Curriculum Tries to Insinuate BDS into Hebrew Schools
Teaching Jewish children to question Israel’s legitimacy.