The Process Begun at Oslo Was Never about Peace, Only about Israeli Concessions
A view from inside the U.S. government.
September 14, 2018
Why the Museum of the Bible Angered So Many Academics
Losing public authority over Scripture.
Opened last fall and located not far from the National Mall in Washington, DC, the Museum of the Bible was a source of controversy even before it opened its doors, in part because of its founder, Steven Green, the president of Hobby Lobby and a devout evangelical Christian. Scholars of the Bible and archaeology were prominent among the museum’s critics, in part because they objected to the museum’s framing of certain issues in ways that differ from accepted scholarship, in part because of serious concerns regarding the provenance of certain artifacts—some of which turned out to have been looted from Iraq. But Alex Joffe argues that something else is at stake:
September 14, 2018
The Department of Education Gets Anti-Semitism Right, While Its Critics Get It Wrong
Kenneth Marcus and campus anti-Zionism.
Seventeen Years after Its Attack on the World Trade Center, Al-Qaeda Is Still Very Much Alive
It’s even expanded its reach.
Why the Museum of the Bible Angered So Many Academics
Losing public authority over Scripture.
Marc Chagall in Vitebsk
How the artist was influenced by his hometown.