Antonin Scalia’s Prophetic Speech on the Crisis of Higher Education
Preserving the “uncompromisable standards of human conduct . . . the West has derived from and through the Jews.”
December 15, 2023
Publicizing the Miracle of Hanukkah in a Berlin “No-Go Zone”
Two German rabbis come out of hiding.
Yesterday German police arrested three men affiliated with Hamas who were planning an attack on Jewish targets. The news makes especially poignant this reflection by Rebecca Blady and Jeremy Borovitz, two Berlin rabbis who in 2021 moved to Neuköln, generally considered “a ‘no-go zone’ for the city’s tens of thousands of Jews.” Since October 7, they have been even more cautious than usual about public activity, yet have not lost sight of their goal “to make Jewish pride, Jewish confidence, and Jewish visibility a matter of course in Europe.”
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How Israel Prevented a Second Front from Opening Up in the West Bank
Taking off the gloves and “the traumatic memory of the second intifada.”
Hamas Exploits International Aid to Stay in Business
A model shared by Syria and Yemen.
Publicizing the Miracle of Hanukkah in a Berlin “No-Go Zone”
Two German rabbis come out of hiding.
The Rabbi-Doctors of 17th-Century Italy
Rabbinic “fellows” and their graduation odes.