While the White House Talks of Palestinian Statehood, Mahmoud Abbas Talks of a “Day of Rage”
All you need to know about the chances for peace.
January 30, 2020
Yemen’s Millennia-Long Connection to the Land of Israel
From Sheba to Jerusalem.
While it has often been assumed that the queen of Sheba mentioned in the book of Kings was an African potentate, today most scholars locate her territory in what is now Yemen. Her famous visit to Jerusalem reflects the very long history of commerce and travel between the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula and the Land of Israel. Reviewing an exhibit at Israel’s Bible Lands Museum about this relationship, Eliana Rudee writes:
January 30, 2020
Donald Trump’s Partition Plan and Its Precursors
International backing may matter more than Palestinian acceptance.
Don’t Base the Fight against Anti-Semitism and for Jewish Sovereignty on the “Lessons of the Holocaust”
To fight its enemies, the Jewish state should distance itself from victimhood.
Yemen’s Millennia-Long Connection to the Land of Israel
From Sheba to Jerusalem.
How the Hebrew Bible, and the Apocrypha, Created Models for Sustaining Judaism in Exile
Joseph, Daniel, and Tobit.