The Israel-Sudan Deal Is a Blow to Both Hamas and Iran
And another dent in Arab and Muslim opposition to the Jewish state.
October 27, 2020
The Race to Preserve and Document the Sacred Traditions of Ethiopian Jewry
The Orit Guardians.
Cut off for many centuries from the main centers of Jewish religious life, the Beta Israel Jews of Ethiopia preserved distinctive canonical texts. Moreover, while rabbinic Jews committed their oral teaching to writing in the middle of the first millennium CE, Ethiopian Jews continued to hand these down by word of mouth. A group of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University are now committed to preserving these traditions before they are lost. Amanda Borschel-Dan reports:
October 27, 2020
Will a Biden Administration Undermine Recent Progress in the Middle East?
Unlikely, but it could drive U.S. allies into the arms of China.
How Anti-Israel Politics Overtook Durham, North Carolina
Anti-Semitism goes local.
The Race to Preserve and Document the Sacred Traditions of Ethiopian Jewry
The Orit Guardians.
Gertrude Himmelfarb, the Outstanding Historian of Modern Morality
What a scholar learned from the Victorians.