The U.S. Should Rally the World against Iran
Now isn’t the time to back down.
September 18, 2019
Prayer and Voting in an Ultra-Orthodox Campaign Video
Vote Shas and get a good verdict from Heaven?
Yesterday’s Israeli election coincided with the weeks during which Sephardi and Mizraḥi Jews recite early-morning penitential prayers known as sliḥot in advance of the High Holy Days. (In the Ashkenazi rite, these prayers are not said until this coming weekend.) Thus a video, less than four minutes long and released by the ḥaredi Sephardi Shas party to attract voters, opens with scenes of people rising early to go to synagogue to the sound of traditional sliḥot melodies, saving explicit political content to the end. Shaul Seidler-Feller analyzes this advertisement, and what it says about religion and politics in the Jewish state:
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Younger Palestinians Are More Moderate Than Their Elders—With One Major Exception
Most don’t even support payments to imprisoned terrorists.
What Christians Can Learn from Jews about Helping Their Persecuted Coreligionists
Jews have made heroic efforts to help their own—and also to condemn violence against Christians.
Prayer and Voting in an Ultra-Orthodox Campaign Video
Vote Shas and get a good verdict from Heaven?
British Tin Made the Israelite Bronze Age Possible
A new study solves a metallurgical mystery.