In Yemen, Iran Is Preparing for Its Next War with Israel
And it’s winning.
September 20, 2021
Why the Pope Was Wrong about Jewish Law
What good are profound values if we don’t know how to put them into action?
In an address at the Vatican last month, Pope Francis stated that the Mosaic law “does not give life [and] does not offer the fulfillment of [God’s] promise.” A few weeks later, Francis clarified that he was concerned about the influence of “fundamentalists” within the church whose legalism “leads us to a rigid religiosity, a rigidity that eliminates that freedom of the [Holy] Spirit.” Some Jewish figures saw in both addresses a resurfacing of anti-Judaic ideas that have been muted in Catholic doctrine since the Second Vatican Council, and the Vatican has responded with appropriate reassurances. Warren Goldstein, the chief rabbi of South Africa and himself an active participant in Jewish-Christian dialogue, comments:
September 20, 2021
The Holocaust Survivor Who Foresaw the Dangers of Left-Wing Anti-Zionism
Jean Améry and the “old-new anti-Semitism.”
The History of the Etrog in America
Thomas Jefferson, Jamaica, California, and the citron-candy crazy.
After the Depredations of Islamic State, an Unlikely Alliance Restored the Tomb of the Prophet Nahum
Nineveh was destroyed again, but this monument still stands.
Why the Pope Was Wrong about Jewish Law
What good are profound values if we don’t know how to put them into action?