Popular Protest: Palestinian Leaders’ Greatest Fear?
Is the Arab Spring on its way to Gaza and the West Bank?
November 6, 2019
What’s an Orthodox Jew to Do about Modern Bible Scholarship?
The strengths and weaknesses of a recent study.
The Believer and the Modern Study of the Bible is a collection of essays—mostly by Orthodox university scholars and rabbis living in Israel—about the problem of reconciling Jewish faith with the theories of the past century-and-a-half of secular Bible scholarship. While Ysoscher Katz finds much to praise in the volume, he deems deficient two essays that attempt to use the ancient rabbis’ approach to exegesis as a sort of permission slip for modern religious readers to read the Hebrew Bible in ways long deemed heretical:
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A Lesson on How Not to Handle Religious Pluralism in Israel
In protesting a benefit concert for a medical non-profit, Israeli feminists reveal that they are the intolerant ones.
In an Attempted Bashing of the Trump Administration, the “Washington Post” Inadvertently Reaffirms the Jewish History of Jerusalem
Ishaan Tharoor’s Cyrus problem.
The (Allegedly) Blind Rabbi and the Greatest Jewish Controversy of the 18th Century
Why did one great rabbi help a cantankerous social misfit and rabbinic genius tar a third rabbi as a heretic?
What’s an Orthodox Jew to Do about Modern Bible Scholarship?
The strengths and weaknesses of a recent study.