China’s Growing Interest in the Middle East is Anything but Benign
Beijing buys Muslim leaders’ support for repressing its own Muslim population.
September 12, 2019
Were the Defenders of Masada Justified in Killing Themselves?
An old-new rabbinic debate.
According to the ancient Jewish historian Josephus, Jewish rebels, besieged by Roman legionaries on the hilltop fortress of Masada in the year 73 CE, decided to commit suicide rather than surrender. Scholars still debate the accuracy of this account, while the Zionist movement decades ago embraced it as an example of Jewish heroism. But, notes Shlomo Brody, the Talmud makes no mention of the fall of Masada, and the rabbinic view of such acts of martyrdom is hardly straightforward:
September 12, 2019
The New Anti-Semitic Face of Bernie Sanders’ Presidential Campaign
Does Sanders think his Jewish origins give him a pass for employing Linda Sarsour?
Israel’s Military Campaign Makes Iran More, Not Less, Likely to Negotiate with the U.S.
The real maximum pressure.
A British Lord Returns to His Humble Jewish Roots, and Praises Jewish Solidarity
The thing I love most is being a yid.
Were the Defenders of Masada Justified in Killing Themselves?
An old-new rabbinic debate.