How the U.S. Could Help Foster Real Peace in the Middle East
Look to the Sunni states, not to a failed peace process.
May 20, 2016
Why Can’t a Lame Priest Serve in the Temple?
Making sense of a discomfiting law.
This week’s Torah reading, concerned mainly with regulations governing the Temple service, forbids any member of the priestly caste with a physical deformity (e.g., lameness, blindness, or a lazy eye) from performing the sacrificial rites, although he is nonetheless eligible to a share in tithes. Reflecting on the sharp discordance between this law and modern sensibilities, William Herlands writes:
May 20, 2016
Don’t Label Jews “Renegades” for Not Supporting Trump
David Horowitz is not the Jewish pope.
The Senate’s Admirable Effort to Help Return Art Looted by the Nazis
The HEAR Act.
Hamas, Not Israel, Commits War Crimes in Gaza
Perfidy.
Why Can’t a Lame Priest Serve in the Temple?
Making sense of a discomfiting law.