The Second Lebanon War, as Seen from the White House
Having failed to achieve its military goals, Israel could not achieve its diplomatic goals.
August 15, 2017
The High Cost that Liberal Secularism Places on the Future
Fairness vs. loyalty.
Contrasting the prototypes of “Shimen”—a ḥasidic Jew and Holocaust survivor—and “Heidi,” a highly educated liberal Jew—Moshe Koppel explains their differing responses to the inevitable tension between loyalty and fairness. “Shimen” tends to give them equivalent, if not equal, weight, while “Heidi” has an absolute preference for fairness. Koppel argues that this preference stems from a lack of concern with posterity:
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By Ignoring History, Christians—Like Many Others—Get the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Wrong
History should come even before justice.
Judaism’s Love of Life and Its Views of Death
The body, the soul, and the Jewish culture of fertility.
The High Cost that Liberal Secularism Places on the Future
Fairness vs. loyalty.
How the “Alt-Right” Came to Love Syria’s Murderous Dictator
They share a hatred of Jews, among other things.