Shamir’s ‘Pro-Palestinian’ Strategy to Resist Partition
byWhy did the United Nations feel so threatened by Prime Minister Shamir’s initiative to provide permanent housing for Palestinian refugees?
Mishpatim: Mystery of the Mal’akh
byThere is a different between a created mal’akh & a mal’akh that’s actually direct Divine guidance.
That Anti-Semitism Commercial Reinforces Anti-Semitism
byRobert Kraft’s Super Bowl ad is an extravagant caricature of the US Jewish community’s many fruitless efforts to fight anti-Semitism while unwittingly reinforcing anti-Jewish tropes.
Some Jews Can’t Face the Truth About the US-Israel Relationship
byThe most prominent conservative Jews in the United States aren’t willing to look at Western civilization through the lens of Jewish historiography.
Yitro: Israel’s Torah & Israel’s Political Life
byReceiving a legal code at Sinai was an unexpected twist that seemed to have nothing to do with Israel’s understanding of liberation. There suddenly arose a need to strengthen the people’s trust in Moshe.
Karl Popper’s Anti-Israel Bias
byKarl Popper’s divorce of history from rhythm, direction, or inherent meaning naturally identified Israel’s Torah as its primary ideological foe.
Can Jews & Palestinians Live Together?
byCan the Judean ‘extremists’ actually become the unlikely key to Jewish-Palestinian reconciliation?
Beshalaḥ: The Necessity of the Mann
bySince the Torah was forced on Israel, some could argue that it doesn’t naturally fit our identity.
Fire & Water
by“Just as fire and water cannot coexist in a single vessel, so too love for this world and love for the next cannot coexist…
Is Trump Crashing the United States?
byDonald Trump’s naked imperialist style could actually undermine Washington’s global influence & accelerate its decline as an imperial power.
Bo: Blood in the Basin
byThe very act of eating a lamb – an Egyptian deity – on the eve of the Exodus symbolizes the consumption & internalization of those Egyptian values that were worthy of being uplifted as part of the redemption.
Netanyahu at Odds with Trump Over Ending Aid
byEnding Israel’s economic & military dependency on the United States could be Prime Minister Netanyahu’s most significant accomplishment.