With Its Longtime Leader Dead, al-Qaeda Needs Iran More Than Ever
And the U.S. needs Israel’s help in fighting it.
August 4, 2022
Why the Book of Lamentations Doesn’t Get Specific about the Jewish People’s Sins
The theodicy of ambiguity.
This Saturday evening, Jewish congregations around the world will mark Tisha b’Av by reading the book of Lamentations, a series of elegies—attributed by tradition to the prophet Jeremiah—for the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar. The text, Martin Lockshin notes, makes quite clear that the terrible suffering it recounts is divine punishment with such verses as “Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is become a mockery” (1:8).
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Those Worried about Russia Being Humiliated Never Seem to Have the Same Concern about Israel
The fantasy world of the realists.
Carlos the Jackal, and How Palestine Replaced in the USSR in the Mind of the Far Left
A rare interview with the notorious terrorist.
A Great American Jewish Writer Examines Her Youthful Correspondence with a German Soldier Who Fought for Hitler
“I hate no race.”
Why the Book of Lamentations Doesn’t Get Specific about the Jewish People’s Sins
The theodicy of ambiguity.