Palestinian Acceptance of Israel as the Jewish State Must Be a Prerequisite to Further Negotiations
And Washington should demand that it is.
October 19, 2018
Joseph B. Soloveitchik on Jewish Law and America’s Promise
He understood his adopted country’s potential, and its vulnerabilities.
It has been a quarter-century since the death of Joseph B. Soloveitchik, one of the leading rabbis of post-World War II America and the talmudist, theologian, and sage who did the most to shape Modern Orthodoxy in the U.S. Drawing on the particular traditions of the Lithuanian rabbinic elite, among whom he was raised, Soloveitchik’s philosophical writings attempt to explain Judaism in the language of early 20th-century German thought. Mark Gottlieb summarizes their principles:
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Has America Lost Afghanistan?
Yesterday’s attack and Washington’s lack of will.
Milton Himmelfarb’s Complex and Idiosyncratic Spirituality
A Jewish intellectual who bucked the general wisdom.
Joseph B. Soloveitchik on Jewish Law and America’s Promise
He understood his adopted country’s potential, and its vulnerabilities.
Israel’s New High-Speed Railway and the End of Old Israel
The train ride Theodor Herzl called “torture.”