Bahrain Could Be the Next Target of Iranian Expansion
A springboard for attacks on Saudi Arabia?
January 31, 2018
Tu b’Shvat: Tax Deadline, Holiday of the Trees, or an Expression of Longing for the Land of Israel?
Celebrating the fruits of the holy land.
The fifteenth day of the lunar month of Shvat (in Hebrew, Tu b’Shvat), which falls today, has been reinvented in recent decades as a celebration of nature and even of environmentalism. Arguing that this is a misinterpretation of the day’s meaning, Meir Soloveichik explains its original significance for the tithing of fruit and how 16th- and 17th-century rabbis transformed it into a celebration of the fruit of the land of Israel. (Interview by Eric Cohen. Video, 8 minutes.)
January 31, 2018
Ireland’s Boycott-Israel Bill Violates EU and International Law and Will Damage Trade with the U.S.
It also does nothing to help Palestinians.
Tu b’Shvat: Tax Deadline, Holiday of the Trees, or an Expression of Longing for the Land of Israel?
Celebrating the fruits of the holy land.
The Jews Who Fought Hitler, and the Jewish Army That Wasn’t
Some things haven’t changed in 70 years.
A New Work of Fiction Suggests Living Forever Isn’t Everything It’s Cracked Up to Be
Dara Horn’s Eternal Life.