No, Benjamin Netanyahu Didn’t Just Promise to “Annex” Part of the West Bank
Besides, Israel’s claims to the Jordan Valley are legitimate.
September 13, 2019
In the Jewish View, Animals Don’t Have Rights, but People Have Duties—Even to Animals
Making sense of Maimonides’ contradictions.
In this week’s Torah reading of Ki Teitsei (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19), there are multiple commandments regulating the proper treatment of animals, including the prohibition against muzzling an ox while it is treading grain and the injunction to shoo away a mother bird before taking its young. The great medieval thinker Moses Maimonides gives three distinct rationales for the latter commandment, two of which can be found in the same work. Placing these varying explanations in the context of other halakhic restrictions on the treatment of animals, Jonathan Sacks seeks to reconcile them:
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Contrary to Popular Belief, Christian Support for Israel Has Little to Do with Apocalyptic Prophecies
And much to do with a shared biblical heritage.
Tinkering with Israel’s Electoral System Won’t Heal Its Political Divides
Even Ben-Gurion didn’t like it—but it works.
Remembering a Dutch Resistance Fighter Who Risked Her Life to Save Jews from the Nazis
Diet Eman, righteous Gentile.
In the Jewish View, Animals Don’t Have Rights, but People Have Duties—Even to Animals
Making sense of Maimonides’ contradictions.