Escalating Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran are Another Legacy of the Nuclear Deal
With leverage over U.S. policy, Iran doesn’t need nuclear weapons to cause trouble.
January 6, 2016
Why Israel’s Official Rabbinate Should Relinquish Some of Its Power
It has reduced rabbis to bureaucrats subject to the temptations of patronage and corruption.
According to an Israeli law passed in 2013, rabbis like Elli Fischer who perform halakhic marriages outside the purview of the chief rabbinate can be punished with up to two years in prison. But unlike other religious critics of the institution—which comprises not just the two chief rabbis but an entire network of local rabbis, religious courts, and kashrut supervisors, along with a bureaucratic apparatus for performing marriages and conversions—Fischer believes that it cannot be reformed but must be fundamentally changed so as to limit its power:
January 6, 2016
Why Israel’s Official Rabbinate Should Relinquish Some of Its Power
It has reduced rabbis to bureaucrats subject to the temptations of patronage and corruption.
Could the U.S. Have Done More to Slow the Progress of the Holocaust?
And why didn’t it?
The Forced Convert to Christianity who Covertly Defended Judaism and the Jews
He professed a religion he continued to scorn.
A New Curriculum Tries to Insinuate BDS into Hebrew Schools
Teaching Jewish children to question Israel’s legitimacy.