By Working with Egypt to Send Natural Gas to Lebanon, the U.S. Helps Iran
Boosting Syria and Hizballah at the same time.
September 1, 2021
The Rabbinic Debate over Napoleon
Beware the Gentile who doesn’t cross himself in front of a church.
When Napoleon Bonaparte’s forces marched through Germany and Italy, they tore down the walls of the ghettos in which Jews had been forced to live—symbols, to Revolutionary French eyes, of the worldly power of the Catholic Church in the old regime. Some French Jews even wrote Hebrew panegyrics in Napoleon’s honor. When the emperor was poised to invade Russia, many prominent rabbis prayed for his victory, seeing French rule as clearly more beneficent than that of the tsars. But Shneyer Zalman of Liadi, the founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of the ḥasidic movement, disagreed. Dovid Margolin writes:
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Israel’s Forest Fires, and Those Who Cheer Them On
“If we can’t have the land, neither can you.”
Why Israel Needs to Reform Its Kosher-Certification System
Nowhere does halakhah call for a state monopoly.
The Rabbinic Debate over Napoleon
Beware the Gentile who doesn’t cross himself in front of a church.
In a New Exhibit, the Jewish Museum Avoids the Word Jew
Louise Bourgeois, artist without context.