Understanding Israel’s War on Hizballah’s Finances
Why use sanctions when you can bomb the banks?
October 23, 2024
Why Jews, Despite Everything, Should Rejoice This Simchat Torah
A message from 1973.
Thursday night and Friday—or in, Israel, Wednesday night and Thursday—is Simchat Torah, one of the most joyous days of the Jewish year. It was also the day of the greatest Jewish tragedy since the Shoah. How can this be a day of ecstatic celebration when the shadow of last year’s Simchat Torah looms so large, and so many Jews continue to suffer the consequences? It turns out this question isn’t a new one. On Simchat Torah of 1973, amid the shock and tragedy of the Yom Kippur War, Rabbi Norman Lamm found himself asking (and being asked) whether the day’s joy should be diminished. His answer: “most certainly no.”
October 23, 2024
People in Close Contact with Iranian Intelligence Shouldn’t Be Handling America’s State Secrets
Someone leaked Israeli plans to Tehran.
The Pope Cites a Favorite Verse of Anti-Semites in His Letter to Middle Eastern Catholics
A disaster for Jewish relations with the Vatican.
Why Jews, Despite Everything, Should Rejoice This Simchat Torah
A message from 1973.
A Biophysicist’s Guide to Studying Genesis
Finding our place in the still-unfolding story.