Negotiations with Iran Are Reaching the Point of No Return
There will be no "tearing up the treaty" later.
May 8, 2015
What Did the Ten Commandments Look Like? And How Were They Arranged?
Tablets with curved tops? Rectangles? Two sides of the same stone?
In portraying the tablets on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed, Jewish and Christian iconography has traditionally shown them as two stones, side by side, with curved tops. Yet the Bible says nothing about their shape or disposition, while the Talmud simply states that they were rectangular. Out of deference to the latter, the chief rabbinate of Israel has decided to change its logo to display the tablets as rectangles. Shalom Bear cites an archaeologist with a different opinion:
May 8, 2015
Moral Tourism: Bad Poetry after Auschwitz
The Death’s Head Chess Club and other novels of Holocaust kitsch.
Unaffiliated Does Not Mean Irreligious
Interpreting a new Pew study about American religion.
Allowed but Unwelcome: the Jews of Jordan
How Jewish students and aid workers hide their Jewishness.
What Did the Ten Commandments Look Like? And How Were They Arranged?
Tablets with curved tops? Rectangles? Two sides of the same stone?