Libya Could Be the Scene of a Showdown between Egypt and Turkey
A regional struggle pitting militarists and monarchs against Islamists.
July 21, 2020
What Medieval Rabbis Thought about Christianity
“Nations who are limited by the ways of religions.”
This month, Mosaic has offered a series of essays on Christian attitudes toward Judaism and the Jewish state. David Berger, the foremost authority on Jewish-Christian polemic in the Middle Ages, tackles Jews’ attitudes towards Christians in this interview with Elliot Resnick—among many other topics. He begins with the opinions of Rabbi Yeḥiel of Paris, whose disputation with a Catholic clergyman in 1240 was followed by the mass burning of Jewish religious texts:
July 21, 2020
Banning Words Won’t Help Muslims or Defeat Terrorism
A debate that doesn’t strike fear in the hearts of jihadists.
Why There’s No Inconsistency in the Supreme Court’s Recent Affirmations of Religious Liberty
To the believer, the free exercise of religion is a pervasive thing—an identity, not just an idea.
For the Polish Government, Memory of the Holocaust Must Not Interfere with a Narrative of Polish Victimhood
Andrzej Duda’s victory is bad for the Jews.
What Medieval Rabbis Thought about Christianity
“Nations who are limited by the ways of religions.”