Thoughts on Yitzhak Rabin’s Assassination, a Quarter-Century On
Israel pulled itself away from the brink, and can do so again.
October 30, 2020
The Murder of a French Teacher Demonstrates the Limits of Enlightenment Optimism
Nathan the Wise and the jihadist wave.
France currently finds itself in the midst of a wave of jihadist terrorist attacks, which began with the beheading of a school teacher who, in a discussion of freedom of expression, had shown his students caricatured drawings of the founder of Islam. Having recently read the German Enlightenment thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s play Nathan the Wise—in which a Christian knight, a Muslim prince, and the eponymous wise Jew of the title learn to look past their disagreements over religion—Michael Weiner shares some thoughts on the French situation:
October 30, 2020
How the British Labor Party Denied Jews Their Place in Politics
With Corbyn out, will the party turn the corner?
The Murder of a French Teacher Demonstrates the Limits of Enlightenment Optimism
Nathan the Wise and the jihadist wave.
The Coronavirus Has Sent Arab Economies Reeling, but Not for the Obvious Reasons
Old ills, not a new disease, are the problem.
An Idiosyncratic Rabbi Who Learned from the Best and Dismissed the Worst of Postmodernism
Meet José Faur.