How Two Barren Islands Can Pave the Way to Saudi-Israeli Peace
Jerusalem should be asking Riyadh for more in return.
June 7, 2022
The Roman Empire’s Religious War against the Jews
What the destruction of Jerusalem meant to those who destroyed it.
Now that Shavuot is passed, the next notable day on the Hebrew calendar is the fast of the seventeenth of Tammuz, which commemorates, inter alia, the breach of the walls of Jerusalem by Roman legionaries in 70 CE, which in turn led to the destruction of the Second Temple and the defeat of the great Judean Revolt. As Guy MacLean Rogers explains in conversation with Aaron MacLean, the so-called “Jewish War” was an event of enormous significance not only for the Jews, but also for the Romans: it represented, in Roman eyes, a victory of paganism over monotheism; it also became a source of legitimacy for the Flavian dynasty that ruled the empire for three decades. The two also discuss the military dimensions of the campaign. (Audio, 69 minutes.)
June 7, 2022
What Goes On at Iran’s Jewish Studies Center
Anti-Semitism 101.
The Paradox at the Heart of Hebrew Literature’s Most Famous Rejection of the Diaspora
Haim Hazaz’s “The Sermon.”
The Roman Empire’s Religious War against the Jews
What the destruction of Jerusalem meant to those who destroyed it.
Canada Will Soon Offer Assisted Suicide to the Mentally Ill
Beware the slippery slopes to the north.