The Syria Cease-Fire Poses a Threat to Israel
Can Russia be trusted to restrain Iran?
July 18, 2017
The Future of Jewish Education in the Age of Relativism
Revisiting Eliezer Berkovits’s classic essay.
In 1970, the Romanian-born Orthodox rabbi and theologian Eliezer Berkovits wrote an essay titled “Jewish Education in a World Adrift.” In it he called on Jews to resist the nihilism, boredom, and permissiveness of contemporary society, starting by bolstering Jewish schools. Mark Gottlieb discusses Berkovits’s novel approach to halakhah and Jewish thought and the relevance of the essay’s argument for the present day. (Interview by Jonathan Silver. Audio, 36 minutes.)
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How the Modernization of the Middle East Went Terribly Wrong
Unmoored from tradition, while embracing the worst of the West.
Why Palestinians Oppose Metal Detectors on the Temple Mount
The B.S. detectors.
The Future of Jewish Education in the Age of Relativism
Revisiting Eliezer Berkovits’s classic essay.
Are There “Democratic” and “Republican” Books of the Bible?
About Marco Rubio’s Twitter Bible-lessons.