An India-Middle East Corridor Can Be a Counterweight to Both Iran and China
Building a new American strategy on Israel’s diplomatic breakthroughs.
October 6, 2023
The Italian Rabbi Who Dismissed Ecclesiastes as Heretical, and Later Recanted
Samuel David Luzzatto’s commentary.
Two talmudic passages suggest that ancient rabbinic authorities considered removing the book of Ecclesiastes from the canon, and the standard midrashic commentary on the book states outright that some of its ideas “lean toward heresy.” While medieval exegetes found ways to harmonize the book with accepted doctrines, one brilliant and idiosyncratic Italian rabbi simply threw up his hands. Martin Lockshin writes:
October 6, 2023
The Jordanian Physician Who Helped the Magen David Adom Get a Seat at the Table
Ending 76 years of the Red Cross’s anti-Jewish prejudice.
The Italian Rabbi Who Dismissed Ecclesiastes as Heretical, and Later Recanted
Samuel David Luzzatto’s commentary.
A Brazilian Jewish Writer’s Return to Jewishness in the Wake of the Yom Kippur War
Clarice Lispector, anti-Semitism, and Macabéa.
Coming from Messianism to Judaism in Show Low, Arizona
The story of a small congregation of converts.