Anti-Semitism Is a Threat to Western Civilization Itself
And it’s a very present threat, on both sides of the Atlantic.
December 31, 2019
When Did Jews and Christians Part Ways? Later Than You Might Think
A new scholarly analysis of the early church.
In her book When Christians Were Jews, Paula Fredriksen argues that one cannot easily point to a historical moment when Christianity ceased to be a Jewish sect and became a wholly separate religion. Rather, the process of disentanglement was a protracted one, remaining incomplete into the 4th century. Noah Benjamin Bickart, in his review, points to a particularly original part of her argument:
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New Israeli Scholarship Shows That an Alleged 1948 Massacre Never Happened
And exposes other myths about Israel’s War of Independence.
The Land of Israel through the Eyes of 19th-Century Travel Writers
“Traces of an omniscient God” or “unspeakably offensive to eye and nostril”?
When Did Jews and Christians Part Ways? Later Than You Might Think
A new scholarly analysis of the early church.
Two Hanukkahs or One?
Some back-of-the-envelope sociology of American Jewry.