Making the Most of Israel’s Renewed Relations with Morocco
The monarch sees himself as the protector of pluralism, and of Palestinians.
December 28, 2022
The Lost Hebrew Manuscripts Hidden in Christian Books
Plundered and recycled.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, bookbinders, printers, and notaries routinely used pages from discarded manuscripts to cover documents or to make bindings for new books. This procedure has led to the preservation of thousands of fragments of Jewish books and historical documents—which Simcha Emmanuel dubs the “European Genizah” by analogy to the trove of discarded manuscripts discovered in a Cairo synagogue. Although these fragments are sometimes found in Hebrew works, more often than not they are found in Gentile ones.
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Judicial Reform Would Add, Rather Than Eliminate, Checks and Balances in the Israeli Regime
Making sense of the override clause.
Facing Setbacks in the Middle East, Jihadism Gains Strength in Africa
A bad year for al-Qaeda, but a better one for Islamic State.
The Moral Meaning of Kosher Laws
“If we had no sense of disgust, . . . we would also have no sense of the sacred.”
The Lost Hebrew Manuscripts Hidden in Christian Books
Plundered and recycled.