The Wave of Terror Is a Reaction to the Failures of the Palestinian National Movement
"The possibility that Israel cannot be dislodged . . . is simply too monstrous to accept."
October 29, 2015
Does the Bible Allow You to Marry Your Uncle?
Rabbis say “yes,” Sadducees “no.”
The book of Leviticus, in its catalogue of forbidden unions, says nothing about marriage between uncles and nieces. The rabbis of the talmudic period allowed and even approved of such marriages, at least between a man and his sister’s daughter; they seem to have differed on the question of marriage between a man and his brother’s daughter, while agreeing that it was not forbidden by the Bible. Later, a small number of medieval rabbis moved to prohibit any uncle-niece marriage at all, and recent scholars have discovered ancient manuscript evidence that both Sadducees and the Qumran sect forbade such unions. Rudolph Klein explains:
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If You Love Israel, Don’t Boycott It
And think of making some demands on Palestinians as well.
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A new book tells the story.
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The 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate.
Does the Bible Allow You to Marry Your Uncle?
Rabbis say “yes,” Sadducees “no.”