As World Leaders Gather to Remember the Holocaust, They Should Ask How Anti-Semitism Differs from Ordinary Hatreds
And the dangers to Jews of both radical Islam and intersectionality.
January 22, 2020
That the Torah Gives No Reason for Keeping Kosher Doesn’t Mean It’s Unreasonable
The rationalists’ case for observing kashrut.
Through the ages, rabbis have suggested various explanations for the Hebrew Bible’s detailed dietary restrictions, while others have cited them as archetypes of laws that are beyond explanation. Detractors, meanwhile, have taken these rules as evidence of the Bible’s irrationality. But, argues Natan Slifkin, the fact that Scripture doesn’t provide an explicit rationale for these commandments is an invitation for the believer to search one out rather than simply falling back on “God said so.”
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The U.S. Finally Acknowledges the Truth about Iran’s Militias
Their relationship with Tehran is anything but murky.
Ultra-Orthodox Control of the Israeli Rabbinate Stands in the Way of Resolving the Conversion Question
Another casualty of the peace process.
That the Torah Gives No Reason for Keeping Kosher Doesn’t Mean It’s Unreasonable
The rationalists’ case for observing kashrut.
Saul Bellow’s Quest for Spirituality in Jerusalem
The novelist’s sole work of nonfiction.