When Confronting Terrorists, Lethal Force Is Often Necessary
Jerusalem Border Police did nothing wrong during the recent attack.
December 6, 2021
Jonathan Sacks’s Moderate Stance on Abortion
“A fetus might not be a person in Jewish law, but it is a potential person, and must therefore be protected.”
While perhaps unrepresentative of popular opinion, American public discourse about abortion tends to pose an argument between two extremes: either the fetus is a “clump of cells” and its destruction a morally neutral act, or abortion is no different at all from postnatal murder. Although the former position has been endorsed by some non-Orthodox rabbis, and the latter by some Orthodox ones, the late British chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks made the case for an intermediate approach in his commentary to Exodus 21, which discusses a man’s tortious accidental termination of a pregnancy. Gil Student explains:
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Withdrawing from the 2015 Nuclear Deal with Iran Was the Right Move—Even if the Ayatollahs Are Closer to the Bomb
The deal would at best have slowed them down, while giving them more money.
The Israeli President Had Every Reason to Celebrate Hanukkah in Hebron
Setting the record straight.
The Two Books of Maccabees Show a Familiar Israel-Diaspora Divergence
Where a Libyan Jew from the 2nd century BCE saw the hand of God, his counterparts in Judea saw human courage.
Jonathan Sacks’s Moderate Stance on Abortion
“A fetus might not be a person in Jewish law, but it is a potential person, and must therefore be protected.”