Popular Protest: Palestinian Leaders’ Greatest Fear?
Is the Arab Spring on its way to Gaza and the West Bank?
November 6, 2019
The (Allegedly) Blind Rabbi and the Greatest Jewish Controversy of the 18th Century
Why did one great rabbi help a cantankerous social misfit and rabbinic genius tar a third rabbi as a heretic?
From 1751 to 1764, European Jewry was riven by a very public dispute between two of the most revered talmudic scholars of the day: Jacob Emden and Jonathan Eybeschütz. It began when the former accused the latter of being a secret follower of the 17th-century messianic pretender Shabbetai Tsvi—and therefore, a heretic. Shnayer Leiman comments on this and also on the oft-forgotten role of another esteemed rabbi, Jacob Joshua Falk:
November 6, 2019
A Lesson on How Not to Handle Religious Pluralism in Israel
In protesting a benefit concert for a medical non-profit, Israeli feminists reveal that they are the intolerant ones.
In an Attempted Bashing of the Trump Administration, the “Washington Post” Inadvertently Reaffirms the Jewish History of Jerusalem
Ishaan Tharoor’s Cyrus problem.
The (Allegedly) Blind Rabbi and the Greatest Jewish Controversy of the 18th Century
Why did one great rabbi help a cantankerous social misfit and rabbinic genius tar a third rabbi as a heretic?
What’s an Orthodox Jew to Do about Modern Bible Scholarship?
The strengths and weaknesses of a recent study.