To Deter Iran, America Should Give Israel a Big Bomb
The ayatollahs may doubt whether the U.S. would use it; they won’t have any trouble believing that the Israelis will.
July 26, 2021
Meet the Orthodox Mother of Twelve Who Ran the Office of an Israeli President
She hopes one day to represent Ḥaredim in the Knesset.
A few weeks ago, an unusual photograph appeared in news outlets: it showed Israel’s outgoing president Reuven Rivlin looking on as Joe Biden knelt in front of Rivlin’s chief of staff. Reportedly, the American president had just learned that the latter, Rivka Ravitz, is the mother of twelve children, whom she raised while serving as a senior staffer to a series of Israeli parliamentarians, and then to her country’s president. Ravitz may be a somewhat unusual figure, but in the ḥaredi community of which she is a part, there is nothing unusual about women balancing careers with large families. Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt writes:
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Those Endorsing the Replacement of the Traditional Family Show Little Concern for the Fate of Children
Polyamory, throuples, communes—and children as an afterthought.
Meet the Orthodox Mother of Twelve Who Ran the Office of an Israeli President
She hopes one day to represent Ḥaredim in the Knesset.
Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Visit to Texas, and His Afterlife in Austin
“He told me, looking over his shoulder though no one was eavesdropping, that he liked Reagan.”
Plundered Jewish Documents, Long Thought Lost, Surface in New York City
Ancestry records, memorial books, and more.