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'Rabbinic Scholarship': How the Talmud Yerushalmi was made

This book is a deeply scholarly and ambitious work that sheds new light on the Talmud Yerushalmi and its place within the intellectual world of late antiquity.

By RABBI REUVEN CHAIM KLEIN
22/04/2025

'The Defeat of Evil': A warning for constant vigilance against a resurgent evil within

The Defeat of Evil ends with this somber warning: “Even in victory, we must remember: No triumph is ever complete or permanent. Safeguarding our values demands constant vigilance.”

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'The Human Scale': Israel-based FBI mystery is a page-turner

The Human Scale is a superb contemporary political thriller that goes well beyond simply keeping the reader enthralled with a succession of unexpected developments, page after page.

War Diary: Trump's 'Midas touch' delusions will fail to solve the Gaza crisis

Benjamin Netanyahu can praise President Donald Trump for his “creative and innovative idea” for Gaza, but the prime minister must also recognize the plan is absurd and dead on arrival.

By MORDECHAI BECK
19/04/2025

Saudi Arabia and Abraham Accords: Normalization with Israel is in Riyadh's best interests

If Saudi Arabia does join the Abraham Accords, it would signal a brave new Middle East, where peace and prosperity between Jews and Arabs can become the new norm.

By NEVILLE BERMAN
18/04/2025

Only the dead see the end: Reflection on the devastation of war

The motto of war is “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”

A love supreme: The great love affair of Harriet Cohen and Arnold Bax

One of the most passionate and saddest, yet hardly known great historical love affairs was that between an English classical music composer and a Jewish pianist.

By BARRY BORMAN
15/04/2025

Education and agriculture: Twin pillars of resilience in wartime

In this crisis, we have learned that education, much like agriculture, must persist even in the most turbulent times.

By SAUL BURDMAN
14/04/2025

Spreading the truth, beauty of Israel: Time for the Jewish state to pay for a PR firm

The totality of the failure of collective American Jewish organizations to get even basic facts about Israel to be spread in the US is astounding. Time for Israel to pay for a PR firm.

By GINETTE WEINER
14/04/2025

Qatargate: A timeline of the scandal plaguing Israel, Netanyahu, and the PMO

I have compiled a neat and tidy timeline of all that we know so far about Qatargate at the time of publication.

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