The FBI’s Gratuitous and Futile Investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh’s Death
Ignoring terrorists who murdered Americans, while making hay over the accidental death of a Palestinian journalist.
November 17, 2022
The Life, Work, and Wanderings of Abraham Ibn Ezra
A medieval rabbi with “a love of language, dark humor, penchant for astrology, personal bitterness, and dour personality.”
Born in the Spanish city of Tudela in 1089, and having probably died in England in the 1160s, Abraham Ibn Ezra was a rabbi, poet, and polymath. Centuries later, Robert Browning would dedicate a poem to him. Ibn Ezra’s work, Tamar Marvin writes, is characterized by his “love of language, dark humor, penchant for astrology, personal bitterness, and dour personality.” She tells his unlikely life story, and what led him to write his biblical commentaries on the Hebrew Bible, which are today his best-remembered works:
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Menachem Begin’s Minyan and Israel’s Future
The meaning of the first majority-Orthodox government.
For the Expressive Individualist, Other People Are Just a Means to Self-Fulfilment
The ethics of the advice column.
The Life, Work, and Wanderings of Abraham Ibn Ezra
A medieval rabbi with “a love of language, dark humor, penchant for astrology, personal bitterness, and dour personality.”
What Israel Gains from Reconciliation with Turkey
Despite their differences, the two countries both see Iran as a threat.