The U.S. Is Trying to Seduce Israel into Accepting a Bad Deal with Iran. Israel Should Say No
The mullahs can already produce eight nuclear bombs in three months.
June 8, 2023
Science, Demons, and Salamanders in the Mind of a Great Rabbi
Where others saw contradiction, the author of Ḥatam Sofer saw synthesis.
Born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Moses Schreiber (1762–1839) spent the better part of his career as the rabbi of Pressburg (today Bratislava), and is best known as a fierce opponent of early Reform Judaism, a precursor of Ḥaredism, and the author of the talmudic work Ḥatam Sofer. Less known is his interest in kabbalah, astrology, and the latest advances of European scientists—subjects that in the early part of his life did not seem so far apart as they do now. Maoz Kahana presents a study of this aspect of Schreiber’s intellectual life:
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Reform Judaism Will Lose Its Soul if It Forsakes Its Commitment to Jewish Peoplehood and Zionism
Tikkun olam divorced from particularism is not Jewish universalism; it is just universalism.
The Lessons of Israeli-Egyptian Peace for the Caucasus
A conflict with implications for the U.S. and the Middle East.
Science, Demons, and Salamanders in the Mind of a Great Rabbi
Where others saw contradiction, the author of Ḥatam Sofer saw synthesis.
An “Ingenious” Movie about the Holocaust Ultimately Fails to Satisfy
Persian Lessons.