As the Situation in Syria Changes, the Risks for Israel Increase
Things now under control could spin out of control.
March 27, 2017
Eastern Europe’s Great Karaite Thinker
An 18th-century rabbi and theologian from a forgotten Jewish sect.
Karaism, founded in the Middle East around the 9th century CE, is a Jewish sect that rejects the authority of the Talmud and the rabbinic claim of an “Oral Torah” that can be traced back to Moses’ revelation at Sinai. While Karaites have their own distinctive laws and practices, and have maintained separate Jewish communities in Egypt, Eastern Europe, Crimea, and elsewhere, for most of their history they have also regularly interacted with “Rabbanites,” as they call non-Karaite communities. The Ukrainian-born scholar Simḥah Isaac Lutski (1716-1760) represented one of the high points of Karaite intellectual life, as Daniel Lasker writes:
March 27, 2017
Resume the Fight against the Terror Charities
The U.S. took an eight-year hiatus under the Obama administration.
Islamist Rage against Democracy Is a Tribute to Democracy’s Strength
A response to the attack in Britain.
Religion, and Moral Restraints, Are Necessary for Maintaining a Free Society
A lesson from the book of Exodus.
Eastern Europe’s Great Karaite Thinker
An 18th-century rabbi and theologian from a forgotten Jewish sect.