Iran Is Using Interminable Negotiations as Cover to Continue Its March to the Bomb
A pantomime wrapped in farce inside a charade.
November 30, 2021
Would God Rather Be Abandoned Than His Law Disobeyed?
Faith in honest doubt.
As a young man, Shalom Carmy found himself impressed by the radical skepticism embraced by so many great philosophers, including Socrates and René Descartes. Even as his own attitude to these philosophers became more nuanced, Carmy recalls that he still believed the words of Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.” At the same time, he writes,
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A Controversy Involving a British Athlete Shows Britain’s Inability to Discuss Muslim Anti-Semitism
No one wants to be anathematized as an Islamophobe.
When Jewish Groups Evict Politically Conservative Members
Thrown out of a Moishe House for committing wrongthink.
Would God Rather Be Abandoned Than His Law Disobeyed?
Faith in honest doubt.
Signs of Jewish Life, and Death, Discovered at the Ancient Capital of Rabbinic Scholarship
Yavneh and its sages.