Popular Protest: Palestinian Leaders’ Greatest Fear?
Is the Arab Spring on its way to Gaza and the West Bank?
November 6, 2019
In an Attempted Bashing of the Trump Administration, the “Washington Post” Inadvertently Reaffirms the Jewish History of Jerusalem
Ishaan Tharoor’s Cyrus problem.
Last Friday, the Washington Post published a column by Ishaan Tharoor—a dedicated Israel hater—titled “The Trump Administration’s Obsession with an Ancient Persian Emperor.” The column took as its prime example a tweet sent by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo marking the day in 539 BCE when “Cyrus the Great entered Babylon and freed the Jewish people from captivity” and declaring that the U.S. “stands with the Iranian people who are blocked by the [current] regime from celebrating [Cyrus’s] legacy.” While admitting that this “famous event in history” is documented by “sources including biblical Scripture,” Tharoor made sure to point out that Cyrus “presided over massacres and pillage.” He then went on connect the Trump administration’s invocations of the Persian monarch to its affection for lawless despots as well as the eschatology of a radical fringe of evangelical Christianity.
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A Lesson on How Not to Handle Religious Pluralism in Israel
In protesting a benefit concert for a medical non-profit, Israeli feminists reveal that they are the intolerant ones.
In an Attempted Bashing of the Trump Administration, the “Washington Post” Inadvertently Reaffirms the Jewish History of Jerusalem
Ishaan Tharoor’s Cyrus problem.
The (Allegedly) Blind Rabbi and the Greatest Jewish Controversy of the 18th Century
Why did one great rabbi help a cantankerous social misfit and rabbinic genius tar a third rabbi as a heretic?
What’s an Orthodox Jew to Do about Modern Bible Scholarship?
The strengths and weaknesses of a recent study.