The Palestinians Have No “Right” to Territorial Concessions
A political, not a legal, question.
July 5, 2017
Why Don’t Jews Like Christians Who Like Them?
Evangelicals, Israel, and American Jewish politics.
The late political scientist James Q. Wilson posed this question in a 2008 essay exploring, first, the positive attitude of many evangelical Christians not only toward Judaism and the Jewish state but toward actual Jews and, second, most Jews’ continual suspicion of any political alliance with these Christians. In a conversation with Jonathan Silver, Mitchell Rocklin revisits Wilson’s arguments and raises the possibility that Israeli Jews, American Orthodox Jews, and evangelical Christians may soon share more common ground politically with each other than with the majority of American Jewry. (Audio, 34 minutes.)
July 5, 2017
A Knesset Bill on Conversion Puts Issues of Synagogue and State to the Test
A much greater problem for Israel, and for American Jewry, than the Western Wall controversy.
Islamic State May Be on the Defensive, but the Ideology behind It Is Not
Thinking about the day after.
Why Don’t Jews Like Christians Who Like Them?
Evangelicals, Israel, and American Jewish politics.
Why Facebook Can’t Replace Religion
Mark Zuckerberg’s plan for reviving civil society.