Israel’s New Death-Penalty Law Is a Counterproductive Stunt
It won’t prevent hostage deals.
April 1, 2026
A Hasidic Discourse on the Haggadah
“The bread of faith.”
Shlomo Yosef Zevin (1888–1978) is best known for beginning work on a massive encyclopedia of the Talmud, a project at last close to completion; he won an Israel Prize for his scholarship. In an essay published in 1959 and recently translated from Hebrew by Eli Rubin, Zevin explores the approach of Chabad rabbis to the Passover Haggadah, illustrating the movement’s distinctive theology and use of mysticism.
April 1, 2026
How the Israeli-American Alliance Is Dismantling the Islamic Republic
There is no rift.
The Seder Is the Jews’ Most Powerful Technology of Transmission
Solving the problem that troubled Plato.
Remembrances of Passover in Tehran
And of a very personal exodus.
A Hasidic Discourse on the Haggadah
“The bread of faith.”