The Significance of Mahmoud Abbas’s Holocaust Denial
Westerners’ persistent refusal to take the Palestinian president for what he actually is.
August 19, 2022
Norman Lamm’s Theology of Moderation
Not a sorry compromise, but the essence of judiciousness.
In his ethical writings, Moses Maimonides puts great emphasis on the virtue of moderation—drawing in equal measures on Aristotle, rabbinic writings, and biblical wisdom literature. In recent times, the late Norman Lamm, a leading American Orthodox rabbi and the former president of Yeshiva University, spoke often about this same virtue, its importance in both public and personal conduct, and its theological implications. He even took to dubbing his preferred sub-denomination as “Centrist Orthodoxy” in a nod to the importance of the middle path. Tzvi Sinensky traces the development of Lamm’s thinking about moderation, and its relation to politics and to the interconnected virtue of civility:
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The U.S. Says It Wants to Stand Up to Russia, While Trusting It in Negotiations with Iran
The emerging coalition of totalitarian rogue states.
Will the Tories Follow America’s Lead and Recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital?
Being pro-Israel might become a new litmus test for those aspiring to lead the party.
Norman Lamm’s Theology of Moderation
Not a sorry compromise, but the essence of judiciousness.
One Family’s Story of Jewish Life and Rebirth in the Shadow of the Shoah
Yossi Klein Halevi’s Kaddish.