October 7 and the Literature of Destruction
The next chapter.
August 9, 2024
What Jewish Women Weren’t Learning
An unusable past?
A book recently published in English, The Unknown History of Jewish Women through the Ages: On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty, by the distinguished Israeli historian of Jewish mysticism Rachel Elior, examines the exclusion of Jewish women from the traditional rabbinic study. Leah Sarna praises the vast amount of data the book includes, but finds much about its analysis inadequate:
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Can Israel Win Its Conflict with the Palestinians?
Daniel Pipes’s “victory strategy.”
The Countries That Supported al-Qaeda Now Support Hamas and Hizballah
Qatar and Iran.
What Jewish Women Weren’t Learning
An unusable past?
Why This Orthodox Rabbi Supports an Adoption Agency’s Right to Discriminate against Jews
Protecting religious freedom.