Should Arab Israelis Be Conscripted into the IDF?
What makes the Druze different.
August 22, 2018
The Meteorologist-Turned-Professor Who Discovered the Parallels between Talmudic and Zoroastrian Law
Remembering Yaakov Elman.
For the first century-and-a-half of academic Jewish studies, scholars approached the Talmud armed primarily with knowledge of Judaism and of Greco-Roman antiquity. Such knowledge is undoubtedly necessary for studying the Mishnah (the older stratum of the Talmud) and the Jerusalem Talmud, both of which were produced in Roman-ruled Palestine. But the far more significant Babylonian Talmud reflects the teaching of rabbis who lived in Persian-ruled Mesopotamia during the 3rd through 6th centuries, a place where the dominant religion was Zoroastrianism and the literary language Persian. The late Yaakov Elman, an Orthodox Jew who had been a meteorologist, bookseller, and publisher before turning to fulltime scholarship, rought knowledge of this period in Iranian history to the study of Talmud. Shai Secunda reminisces about Elman, who died last month at the age of seventy-four:
August 22, 2018
Calling Israel a “Settler-Colonial Project” Is Itself Anti-Semitic
The problem with Jeremy Corbyn’s defenders.
If Kofi Annan Was the “World’s Conscience,” Then the World Has No Conscience
The tainted legacy of the late UN secretary general.
The Permanent Worth of Cynthia Ozick’s Fiction
Jewish literature, like Jews, will either become more overtly Jewish, or cease to be Jewish at all.
The Meteorologist-Turned-Professor Who Discovered the Parallels between Talmudic and Zoroastrian Law
Remembering Yaakov Elman.