Foreign-Policy Advice for the Next President
Reward friends, punish enemies.
November 11, 2016
Why Did God Choose Abraham? Because He Was Fit to Be a Father
To know the mind of God we simply need to know what it is to be a parent.
This week’s Torah reading of Lekh-L’kha begins with God’s call to Abraham (then still called Abram), a figure only minimally introduced. After examining three contrasting extra-biblical portraits of Judaism’s founding father, Jonathan Sacks explores what can be gleaned about him from the text itself:
November 11, 2016
The Crisis at the International Criminal Court Proves the U.S. and Israel Right
It could never fulfill its noble mission, and it never tried.
Iran Violates the Nuclear Deal—and the White House Makes Its Indifference Clear
This isn’t the first time.
Why Did God Choose Abraham? Because He Was Fit to Be a Father
To know the mind of God we simply need to know what it is to be a parent.
A Quixotic Search for Ancient Atheists
Battling the Gods.