Making the Most of Israel’s Renewed Relations with Morocco
The monarch sees himself as the protector of pluralism, and of Palestinians.
December 28, 2022
The Moral Meaning of Kosher Laws
“If we had no sense of disgust, . . . we would also have no sense of the sacred.”
To some, the dietary regulations of Leviticus and Deuteronomy are exemplars of what rabbinic tradition calls a ḥok (literally, a statute)—a Divine decree whose rationale is unintelligible to mankind, and known only to God himself. Natan Slifkin argues that, on the contrary, these dietary laws have ethical meaning, if one understands ethics not “in the narrow Western sense of not causing harm to other people,” but in a more expansive Judaic sense:
December 28, 2022
Judicial Reform Would Add, Rather Than Eliminate, Checks and Balances in the Israeli Regime
Making sense of the override clause.
Facing Setbacks in the Middle East, Jihadism Gains Strength in Africa
A bad year for al-Qaeda, but a better one for Islamic State.
The Moral Meaning of Kosher Laws
“If we had no sense of disgust, . . . we would also have no sense of the sacred.”
The Lost Hebrew Manuscripts Hidden in Christian Books
Plundered and recycled.