To Counter Iran Effectively, the U.S. Must Beat It at Its Own Game
Tehran emerged as the winner of the Arab Spring.
December 21, 2017
My Rabbinic Colleagues Were Wrong about Jerusalem
Two-thousand years later, and it’s still not the right time?
On December 5, all sixteen of the official organizations of Reform Judaism in North America issued a joint statement affirming that the U.S. embassy to Israel should be moved to Jerusalem in principle, but then stating: “we cannot support [the president’s] decision to begin preparing that move now, absent a comprehensive plan for a peace process.” Ammiel Hirsch, the rabbi of a Reform congregation in New York City, dissents:
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Should Israel Be Preparing to Fight Terrorism, or a Full-Scale War?
The security dilemma.
My Rabbinic Colleagues Were Wrong about Jerusalem
Two-thousand years later, and it’s still not the right time?
Reza Aslan’s History of God Is Aggressive Atheism for the 21st Century
Doggedly universalistic, obligation-free, and relentlessly focused on self-revelation.
Paul Valéry Didn’t Think Much about the Jewish Question, but Couldn’t Escape It
He managed to move from the craven to the courageous.