The UK Fecklessly Gives Hope to Hamas
Even as brave Gazans risk their lives to protest their terrorist rulers.
July 23, 2025
When the Gymnasium Was the Center of the Jewish Culture War
A temple to the body in Second Temple-era Jerusalem.
Today, when we think of the conflict between Athens and Jerusalem, we think of ancient philosophical differences. Yet, for the Jews of the 2nd century BCE, living under a culturally Greek empire and increasingly influenced by Hellenistic culture, the most manifest tension had to do with sports. That tension led to a controversy as fierce as any of the secular-religious tensions in modern day Israel when the Hellenophilic high priest Jason set up a gymnasium in Jerusalem. Shmuel Munitz writes:
July 23, 2025
The Church Has a Long History of Condemning Anti-Semitism
Vatican II was a change for the better—but not a U-turn.
Remembering the Druze Revolt of a Century Ago
The past and present of a small, but important, Middle Eastern religious community.
When the Gymnasium Was the Center of the Jewish Culture War
A temple to the body in Second Temple-era Jerusalem.