The Middle East’s Leadership Crisis, and What It Means for the Prospect of Palestinian Statehood
As long as Palestinians are led by selfish and corrupt leaders, the two-state solution is unrealistic.
August 16, 2017
The Real Story of How Orthodox Education for Girls Came to Eastern Europe
If you build it, the rabbis will come.
Prior to World War I, traditional Jewish parents in Eastern Europe provided their daughters with, at the very most, a few years of formal religious education. If girls received any schooling beyond that, it would be at a secular institution; it was common, in fact, even for prominent Orthodox rabbis to send their daughters to secular schools. This all changed thanks to a Galician Jew named Sarah Schenirer, who founded a network of girls’ schools—known as Bais Yaakov—that grew rapidly in the 1920 and 30s; today, most ḥaredi girls attend Bais Yaakov institutions. Schenirer has since become a hero in ultra-Orthodox circles. But the popular version of her story, writes Leslie Ginsparg Klein, muddles some key details:
August 16, 2017
Charlottesville, Denouncing Political Violence, and the Left’s Guilt-by-Association Problem
Why not hold Mahmoud Abbas to the same standards as Donald Trump?
The British Jews Who Helped Create Thatcherism
They did for Margaret Thatcher what neoconservatives did for Reagan.
Europe Still Prefers Its Jews Dead and Quaint
Fake Jewish weddings and what they mean.
The Real Story of How Orthodox Education for Girls Came to Eastern Europe
If you build it, the rabbis will come.