Mahmoud Abbas’s Latest Anti-Semitic Rant Should Come as No Surprise
What’s unusual is that it didn’t go unnoticed.
September 20, 2023
To Moses Maimonides, No Penitent Is an Island
Repentance as a communal pursuit.
The section of the Mishneh Torah—Moses Maimonides’ compendium of talmudic law—titled Hilkhot T’shuvah, or the Laws of Repentance, is one of Judaism’s most profound works of moral theology. In the fourth chapter of this section, Maimonides enumerates and examines 24 sinful behaviors that “prevent repentance,” drawn from the work of the 11th-century North African sage Isaac Alfasi (a/k/a the Rif). Alan Jotkowitz subjects this passage to a close reading:
September 20, 2023
The Abraham Accords and Their Namesake
Why they serve Palestinian interests as well as those of their signatories.
Mainstream Social Science Awakens to the Importance of the Family
The Two-Parent Privilege breaks a taboo.
To Moses Maimonides, No Penitent Is an Island
Repentance as a communal pursuit.
A Famed Scholar’s House of Study Discovered under a Galilean Luxury Hotel
Isaac Luria’s 16th-century living complex.