A Saudi Scholar Lays the Religious Groundwork for Normalization with Israel
And proposes a new Islamic approach to international relations.
July 13, 2022
Why British Jews, of All Stripes, Should Be Concerned about New Restrictions on Orthodox Education
A reminder of 19th-century Anglo-Jewish attitudes to new immigrants from Eastern Europe.
An education bill currently before the British parliament would, inter alia, extend curriculum regulations that now only apply to elementary-school students to ḥaredi schools for children ages thirteen and older. At the same time, the British government is pressuring ḥaredi schools for younger children to teach about tolerance of homosexuals. Joe Mintz argues that even Jews who wish ḥaredi schools to offer more robust secular educations should be wary of the potential threat to religious freedom:
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Assessing the Threat from Iran’s Biological Weapons
Tehran has been developing such weapons for decades.
Europe Won’t Solve Its Anti-Semitism Problem by Expanding Bans on “Hate Speech”
Doing so would signal that Israel’s allies have lost the argument.
Why British Jews, of All Stripes, Should Be Concerned about New Restrictions on Orthodox Education
A reminder of 19th-century Anglo-Jewish attitudes to new immigrants from Eastern Europe.
An Ethiopian Jewish Family Rescues a Rare Copy of the Book of Psalms
One of few extant fragments of the Orit.