How Judaism Protects, Rather than Hinders, Israeli Democracy
As several great thinkers have observed, religion encourages a positive civic culture.
March 23, 2015
A 17th-Century Hebrew Bible’s Journey from Germany to Haifa, via Egypt
A secret 1977 trip to Cairo is involved.
A rare Hebrew edition of the Tanakh, printed in Frankfurt in 1677, has recently been acquired by the University of Haifa, donated by the family of the late Israeli filmmaker Micha Shagrir. Laura Geggel writes:
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The Election That Didn’t Happen Matters More than the One That Did
Congratulations to Mahmoud Abbas on the eleventh year of his four-year term!
Saul Bellow: Jewish in the Gut
His “sense of Judaism, or rather Jewishness, was visceral, not intellectual.”
A 17th-Century Hebrew Bible’s Journey from Germany to Haifa, via Egypt
A secret 1977 trip to Cairo is involved.
Iran Can Still Be Stopped
There's good reason to believe a strike might have longer-lasting effects than many experts think.