The Jordan Valley, the American Withdrawal from Syria, and the Future of Israeli Security
Israel must be able to defend itself by itself.
October 23, 2019
For the “New York Times,” Preserving Jerusalem Is Consistent with Eradicating Its Jewish Presence
A synagogue twice destroyed.
Writing in the New York Times, the architecture critic Michael Kimmelman stated that “modern Jerusalem was spared Disneyfication, first by the highborn culture of British colonialism . . . and next by Jordanian paralysis, which froze the Old City as if in amber.” But, contrary to what Kimmelman asserts, Jordan’s occupation of the city from 1948 to 1967 was anything but paralytic, including as it did the systematic destruction of synagogues and cemeteries, not to mention the expulsion of Jews. Meir Soloveichik writes:
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For the “New York Times,” Preserving Jerusalem Is Consistent with Eradicating Its Jewish Presence
A synagogue twice destroyed.
What We Can Learn from Irving Kristol’s Political Theology Today
The superiority of the rabbinic mode.
The Arrest of Naama Issachar Is a Lesson in Russian Malfeasance and Israeli Naïveté
A backpacker held hostage in exchange for a hacker.
With Its Subversive Customs, Simhat Torah Reaffirms Jewish Values
The product of a millennium of tension between law and folk tradition.