No, the New U.S. Peace Plan Doesn’t Violate UN Resolutions
In fact, it’s the first to uphold the security concept of the UN’s foundational Resolution 242.
February 10, 2020
The True Meaning of Tu b’Shvat and Modern Man’s Crisis of Identity
The new year of the trees is not the Jewish earth day, but it does disclose deeper truths.
The minor Jewish holiday of Tu b’Shvat, which falls today, has been reinvented in recent decades as a celebration of nature and even of environmentalism. Arguing that this is a misinterpretation of the day’s meaning, Meir Soloveichik explains its original significance for the tithing of fruit and how 16th- and 17th-century rabbis transformed it into a celebration of the fruit of the Land of Israel. To Soloveichik, the reimagination of Tu b’Shvat as a “Jewish earth day” speaks to the crisis of identity that haunts modern man. (Video, 34 minutes.)
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While Some Jews Flee France, Others Flee the French Idea
For French Muslims, anti-Semitism has become social and political “cement.”
When Roger Scruton Taught Yeshiva Students
“I do believe that these trials come to us also from God.”
The True Meaning of Tu b’Shvat and Modern Man’s Crisis of Identity
The new year of the trees is not the Jewish earth day, but it does disclose deeper truths.
The New Year of the Trees Celebrates Not Untrammeled Nature but the Human Perfection of Nature
Which would you prefer, bread or grains of wheat?