President Biden Should Learn the Lessons of Past U.S. Attempts to Solve the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
When peace breaks out, the death count rises.
September 21, 2023
The Pilgrims, the Rabbis, and the Bible
Englishmen discovering Judaism, from the 17th-century Netherlands to the 20th-century Upper West Side.
When the journalist-turned-banker-turned-historian Nick Bunker began exploring the ways in which Puritans turned to rabbinic commentary in their effort to understand the Hebrew Bible, he was reminded of his time as a student at Columbia University in the 1980s. Then, an Englishmen pursuing his studies on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, he first became familiar with—and fascinated by—the Jews he encountered and their religious traditions. His experience, perhaps, was something like that of English Protestant Nonconformists exiled in the Netherlands who, for the first time, came into contact with living Jews. Bunker discusses these topics and much else in conversation with Ari Lamm. (Audio, 62 minutes.)
September 21, 2023
Academic Freedom, for Anti-Semites Alone
A hate-fest at the University of Pennsylvania.
Theocracy Is No Cure for the Demoralization of Society
Lessons from the ayatollah.
The Pilgrims, the Rabbis, and the Bible
Englishmen discovering Judaism, from the 17th-century Netherlands to the 20th-century Upper West Side.
How the First Yom Kippur in Japan Put an 800-Year-Old Debate to the Test
In the midst of World War II, a group of exiled yeshiva students posed an urgent question.