Europe Must Stop Tolerating Iranian Operations on Its Soil
Terrorist front groups find impunity.
March 31, 2023
Writing the Story of the Exodus on the Souls of the Next Generation
“Take a living person and turn him into a book.”
In rabbinic texts, the fundamental religious obligation of the Passover seder is to tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt. Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik observes that the word sippur, used here for “storytelling,” derives from the Hebrew root for a book (sefer) or a scribe (sofer). Drawing on the ancient mystical text Sefer Yetsirah (the Book of Creation), Soloveitchik explains that the term refers neither to literal writing nor to mere narration, but to an injunction to parents to inscribe the story on the souls of their children—to “take a living person and turn him into a book.” (Video, Yiddish with English subtitles, 34 minutes.)
March 31, 2023
The Chinese Thinker Who Claims That the Jews Are His Country’s Number-One Enemy
Or is it just “transnational financial capital”?
Russia Is Winning the Information War in the Middle East
Both young Arabs and members of the elite tend to sympathize with Moscow.
Writing the Story of the Exodus on the Souls of the Next Generation
“Take a living person and turn him into a book.”
Religion Returns to Hollywood
A Christian production company has just pulled off a box-office success.