What Made Mahmoud Abbas Attend Shimon Peres’s Funeral?
A complex man at a complex moment.
October 14, 2016
The Moral Confusion of Repenting for Jewish Power
Cutting out one’s tongue is no way to repent for slander.
“A favored pastime of Jewish intellectuals this time of year,” writes David Schraub, “is to point out various sins of the Jewish community as a whole—Israel is a frequent target, though not the only one—and urge repentance.” With this in mind, Schraub comments on a recently formed “non-Zionist” (in fact, anti-Zionist) synagogue in Chicago, whose official ideology of “Diasporism” is based on a belief that Jewish political power is sinful in and of itself:
October 14, 2016
Setting a Foreign-Policy Agenda for the Next President
"He or she must let the world know that America is back."
The Moral Confusion of Repenting for Jewish Power
Cutting out one’s tongue is no way to repent for slander.
A Glimpse into the Religious World of Early-Modern Jewish Women
The influence of the Ts’enah Urenah.
Demand, Not Supply, Explains Modern Orthodoxy’s Leadership Crisis
Holding out for a Hall-of-Famer.