China and Russia Are Helping Iran Kill American Troops
The dangers also give the U.S. an opportunity.
July 23, 2026
What Hath Real-Estate Law to Do with Mourning Jerusalem?
Like Jeremiah, the Jews must press their claim.
The Talmud has a habit of shifting seamlessly from legal analysis to biblical exegesis to narrative and back. For instance, a discussion of practices instituted year-round to mourn the destruction of the Temple—such as leaving a corner of one’s home un-plastered—appears after an especially dense series of debates about real-estate law. Rabbi Elli Fischer contends that there is a deeper connection between these topics than meets the eye, and that a debate about squatter’s rights (to use a modern term) might indeed be one about the claim of Roman occupiers to the Jewish homeland:
July 23, 2026
The Left Abandons the Jews Once More
Lucy and the football.
The Ninth of Av in Catalonia, and a Torrent of Emotion
A weeping for the ages.
What Hath Real-Estate Law to Do with Mourning Jerusalem?
Like Jeremiah, the Jews must press their claim.
The Rabbis’ Ambivalent Tales of the Last Great Jewish Military Hero
Bar Kokhba in the talmudic imagination.