Russia’s Alliance with Hizballah Is Growing Stronger
From fighting side by side in Syria to diplomacy and finance.
May 30, 2023
The Torah and the American Founding
From Thomas Jefferson to modern Middle East policy.
From Thomas Jefferson’s declaration that all men “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” to George Washington’s letters to various Jewish congregations, to Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address, to contemporary Middle East policy, the Hebrew Bible has shaped the American idea. Meir Soloveichik, Robert P. George, Justin Dyer, and Michael Doran—two Catholics, a rabbi, and a Presbyterian—discuss how and why this is so. (Moderated by Samuel Goldman. Video, 85 minutes.)
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