The Ransom Payment to Iran Is the Tip of the Biden Administration’s Appeasement Iceberg
Giving Tehran what it wants while skirting congressional oversight.
August 17, 2023
The Dangers of Comparing Israeli Judicial Reform to the Greatest Catastrophes in Jewish History
Trivializing Judaism’s greatest sorrows.
On July 24—the sixth day of Av, on the Jewish calendar—the Knesset passed a law limiting the ability of the Supreme Court to interfere with ministerial appointments and decisions. Opponents of the reform immediately drew parallels to the upcoming fast day of Tisha b’Av, the ninth of Av, which commemorates the destruction of the two Temples and various other national catastrophes. Meir Soloveichik comments:
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The Dangers of Comparing Israeli Judicial Reform to the Greatest Catastrophes in Jewish History
Trivializing Judaism’s greatest sorrows.
Use the Law to Combat Campus Anti-Semitism
Universities must be forced to fulfill their legal requirements to protect Jewish students.
One of the World’s Oldest Synagogues Was Unearthed in Modern-Day Russia
In a Greek colony on the Black Sea coast.
The Origins of Jewish Prayer
The 9th-century siddur from which all others descend.