Can the White House Use the UN to Outmaneuver Congress on the Iran Deal?
The deal violates Security Council resolutions.
July 20, 2015
The Book of Lamentations’ Unusual Hebrew Alphabet
A possible explanation.
The book of Lamentations (Eikhah in Hebrew), read in synagogue on Tisha b’Av, consists of five chapters. Four of them are structured as alphabetical acrostics; that is, each verse starts with a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet starting with aleph and proceeding in order. In three of these chapters, however, one letter is out of place: the letter peh proceedes ayin—the equivalent of p preceding o. Mitchell First suggests a possible explanation:
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The ICC Makes Clear Its Intention to Single Out Israel for Special Treatment
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Does the New Testament Criticize Judaism from Within or from Without?
It’s more than a family squabble.
Cynthia Ozick, in Spanish
Translating the work of a great Jewish author.
The Book of Lamentations’ Unusual Hebrew Alphabet
A possible explanation.