Why Russia Is Supporting the Houthis
Even as they shoot missiles at Israel.
September 16, 2024
The Women of the Talmud
How the rabbis subverted negative stereotypes.
In her book The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic, Gila Fine examines how the Talmud depicts its female personalities. The book, Yitzchak Blau explains in his review, benefits from the new scholarly focus in recent decades on the Talmud’s aggadic, or nonlegal, passages, which make up the bulk of Fine’s source material. Blau writes:
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Can Israel Find a Way Out of Its Strategic Dilemma?
A new kind of challenge will require new approaches.
The Abandonment of the Jews, and of Education, at the City University of New York
“People don’t even know how to talk and think here.”
A Rare Glimpse at a 14th-Century Hebrew Illustrated Bible
The Shem Tov Bible.
The Women of the Talmud
How the rabbis subverted negative stereotypes.