Making Excuses for Anti-Semitic Cartoons at Stanford
Eli Valley comes to Silicon Valley.
May 9, 2019
The Rabbi, Beer-Brewer, and Price Regulator Who Brought 3rd-Century Talmudic Scholarship to Babylonia
Abba the Tall, known simply as Rav.
Born in Babylonia in the late 2nd century CE, Abba ben Ayvo was one of the earliest amoraim—as the sages whose teachings make up the Gemara, or latter stratum of the Talmud, are known. His contemporaries knew him as Abba Arikha (Abba the Tall), but his influence was so great that the Talmud’s editors most often refer to him simply as Rav (rabbi). As a young man, he studied in the land of Israel before returning to his native country, which in his lifetime began to rival—and would later eclipse—Roman Palestine as the center of rabbinic intellectual activity. Henry Abramson presents a brief synopsis of his remarkable career. (Video, 4 minutes.)
May 9, 2019
The Lone Tank Brigade That Saved the Golan Heights from the Syrian Onslaught during the Yom Kippur War
How Amos Ben-Gal held the line.
Once Again, Israel Goes Far to Prevent Civilian Casualties—and Is Nonetheless Condemned
Nations’ right to self-defense is not abrogated when an opponent fights dirty.
The “Scientific” Ideas That Closed America’s Doors to Jewish Immigrants
A new book on eugenics and the 1924 Immigration Act.
The Rabbi, Beer-Brewer, and Price Regulator Who Brought 3rd-Century Talmudic Scholarship to Babylonia
Abba the Tall, known simply as Rav.