How Bashar al-Assad Helped to Create Islamic State
Shaping reality to resemble a lie.
June 20, 2017
On Foolish Comparisons between King David and Contemporary Politicians
David deserves our respect not despite his sins, but because he sinned and repented.
Some of President Trump’s apologists of a religious inclination have defended his character and private behavior by invoking the biblical David, much as apologists for Bill Clinton did two decades ago. Thus, referring to David’s adulterous liaison with Bathsheba, and his subsequent decision to send her husband to the front lines so that he would be killed, one such apologist recently claimed that “God himself chose morally compromised individuals to accomplish some greater good.” This argument, writes Meir Soloveichik, betrays a woeful misunderstanding (or deliberate manipulation) of the book of Samuel:
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Can Restoring Israel’s Relations with South Africa Prove a Key to Breaking BDS?
Redirecting the country’s moral power.
On Foolish Comparisons between King David and Contemporary Politicians
David deserves our respect not despite his sins, but because he sinned and repented.
How Hamas Gets Away with Lying about Israel
It’s stupid to believe atrocity stories about the Jewish state.
The Jews of Salonica, from 1492 to 1942
Once one of the world’s largest and most important Jewish communities.