The Uphill Battle to Move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem
A message to the world that America stands by its allies.
March 6, 2017
What Is the Third Book of Maccabees?
A forgotten but undeniably Jewish, book.
While the first and second books of Maccabees are not part of the Hebrew Bible, they have been read by Jews as well as Christians over the ages, and have been the main source of the Jewish understanding of the Hanukkah story. Third Maccabees, by contrast, has been forgotten by both Jews and most Christians, although it is included in the Orthodox Christian canon. Written after 1 and 2 Maccabees, it tells the story of the prior persecution of the Jews by the 3rd-century-BCE Greek-Egyptian ruler Ptolemy IV Philopator, a few decades before the Maccabean revolt. Philip Long describes the book’s undeniably Jewish message:
March 6, 2017
Getting International Law Right When It Comes to Israel—and America
NGOs and the media have disseminated a twisted view of reality.
Irving Kristol’s Political Theology
The rabbinic vs. the prophetic.
Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Explains What Her Country’s Narrative Should Be
The story of the Jewish people, not of the conflict with the Palestinians.
What Is the Third Book of Maccabees?
A forgotten but undeniably Jewish, book.