Do Jews Have a Future at the American University?
A townhall conversation with Ruth Wisse, Jonathan Haidt, Liel Leibovitz, and others.
May 20, 2020
The Story of a 17th-Century Chinese Torah Scroll
And the Christian missionaries who brought it to England.
While the first written evidence of Jewish life in in China dates to the late 8th century CE, Jews may have first settled there in the centuries before the Common Era, following the Babylonian exile. In the modern era, a Chinese Jewish community once flourished, but by the 19th century it was rapidly shrinking, in part due to increasing assimilation. It was then that Christian missionaries acquired a rare local Torah scroll, now found in the British Library, as Ilana Tahan writes:
May 20, 2020
The Legal Ramifications of Extending Israeli Sovereignty to West Bank Communities
A country can’t annex its own territory.
How British Intelligence Services Helped Incite the First Arab War against Israel
And helped organize one of the war’s worst massacres.
Don’t Bail Out Iran’s Missile Program
Soon Hizballah will have an arsenal that can overwhelm Israel’s defenses.
The Story of a 17th-Century Chinese Torah Scroll
And the Christian missionaries who brought it to England.