The Sinister Attacks on Israeli Offers of Aid to Lebanon
It would make more sense to criticize countries that don’t send humanitarian aid than to judge Israel’s aid as not sincere enough.
August 10, 2020
The Sage Who Brought the Talmud to the Masses
Adin Steinsaltz, in memoriam.
On Friday, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz died in Jerusalem at the age of eighty-three. A theologian, mystic, educator, and scholar, Steinsaltz began his life’s work at the age of twenty-seven: producing an edition of the Babylonian Talmud with modern Hebrew translation and commentary that would make this abstruse text accessible to the beginning student. He then expanded his horizons to work on an English version (reviewed here), as well as a similar Hebrew-language edition of the older, less studied, and even more abstruse Jerusalem Talmud. In a 1990 essay in Commentary, Edward Alexander took stock of both the man and his mission:
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What African American Politics Illuminates about Jewish American Politics
A key component of both groups’ identities.
The Sage Who Brought the Talmud to the Masses
Adin Steinsaltz, in memoriam.
The Abrupt Resignation of a Progressive Theological Seminary’s First Jewish President—Who Made the Mistake of Professing His Zionism
Is there no room for Zionists at the Graduate Theological Union?
The Many Lives, and the Just Death, of the “Butcher of Riga”
How the Mossad tracked down and killed the so-called Latvian Lindbergh.