Iran’s New President Earned His Post with Bloodshed
The U.S. shouldn’t remove sanctions on Ebrahim Raisi.
June 21, 2021
Jewish Scholars Who Turn against Jewish Peoplehood Won’t Satisfy the Anti-Semites
Some century-old lessons.
In the 1920s, many leading figures in Yiddish literature and scholarship relocated to, or chose to stay in, the Soviet Union, where they found government support for their work, albeit at the cost of ideological conformity. Zelig Kalmanovitch, a leading East European Jewish intellectual at the time—and an anti-Communist who, later in his life, would embrace both Zionism and Orthodoxy—was greatly disappointed when he saw his friends make this decision. Kalmanovitch’s leading biographer, Joshua Karlip, reflects:
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What Benjamin Netanyahu Achieved, and What His Successors Can Learn from Him
Economic, diplomatic, and military might—each in service of the others.
Jewish Scholars Who Turn against Jewish Peoplehood Won’t Satisfy the Anti-Semites
Some century-old lessons.
Why the Hebrew Bible Belongs in Philosophy Courses
Reason met revelation in Athens as well as Jerusalem.
The Government Should Keep Its Involvement in Religious Schools to a Minimum
Why Andrew Yang is right about ḥasidic education.