If Iran Goes Nuclear, the U.S. Will Be Forced Out of the Middle East
Washington needs to see the region as part of a global picture.
July 17, 2024
Noah Feldman’s Jewish Manifesto Lacks Conviction, but Serves Up Lukewarm Anti-Zionism
A tour guide for the perplexed.
In 2007, the Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman penned an attack on the Modern Orthodox community in which he was raised. Allan Nadler, himself an ordained Orthodox rabbi who left the fold, produced a ferocious and memorable rejoinder in which he lambasted Feldman for his “desire to be honored by the very religious institutions and authorities” that he “had willfully defied.” Now Nadler has reviewed Feldman’s newest book, To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People. Despite finding Feldman’s readings of both Moses Maimonides and the great sage and pedagogue Hayyim of Volozhin (1749–1821) shallow, Nadler finds something to praise:
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