Israel Must Speak Up about the Threat Posed by a Possible U.S.-Iran “Understanding”
The nuclear danger is greater than any benefit from normalization with Saudi Arabia.
June 19, 2023
The Puzzle of Sigmund Freud’s Jewishness
A midrashic approach to dreams?
Sigmund Freud was named after his grandfather, the Galician rabbi Schlomo Freud, who ensured that his own son, Jacob, received a yeshiva education. No small number of experts, biographers, and critics have made much of Sigmund’s Jewish extraction—although it was paired neither with belief nor with much knowledge of Jewish matters. Taking a hard look at the contested question of the relationship between the founder of psychoanalysis and the Jews, Adam Kirsch writes:
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Water Could be the Basis for Israel-Iraq Peace
Why shouldn’t Iraq join Azerbaijan and Arizona in benefitting from the might of a desalination superpower?
In Seeking a Judicial Compromise, Israel Should Look to the U.S. Constitution for Guidance
Encouraging moderation and consensus-building.
The Jews Who Fought to End Slavery
What drove Jews to enlist in the Union army?
The Puzzle of Sigmund Freud’s Jewishness
A midrashic approach to dreams?