Turkey’s Renewal of Ties with Israel Won’t End Its Ties with Hamas
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June 28, 2016
Twenty Years Later, an English Translation of the Zohar Nears Completion
The canonical work of Jewish mysticism.
Having begun the project of rendering the Zohar—the major work of Jewish mysticism—into English in 1997, Daniel Matt, with the help of two other scholars, is completing the eleventh volume of the most comprehensive translation of the book to date. (The twelfth and final volume will appear next year.) Ezra Glinter reviews Matt’s translation and discusses the Zohar itself, dated by tradition to the 2nd century CE but believed by most scholars to have been composed in late-13th-century Spain:
June 28, 2016
Brexit, Israel, and the Future of Nationalism
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A Philosophical Defense of Rational Religion
Even in America, religion can inform law.
Twenty Years Later, an English Translation of the Zohar Nears Completion
The canonical work of Jewish mysticism.