February: Ben-Gurion's Army: How the IDF Came into Being (and Almost Didn’t)
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How Ben-Gurion Ensured a Government Monopoly on the Use of Force
Ancient Jewish history, with which he was well acquainted, showed what could happen in the absence of a central military command. He made sure it wouldn’t happen again.
Podcast: Joshua Berman on How Traditional Jews Can Respond to the Challenges of Academic Bible Criticism
On reading the Hebrew Bible in a spirit of intellectual honesty without losing your faith.
The Mysteries of the Sh'ma
It’s at once the most famous affirmation of Jewish belief—no other sentence in Judaism is more powerful—and the most misunderstood.
Are Biblical Hebrew and Modern Hebrew the Same Language, or Two Different Ones?
What separates language from language, and language from dialect.
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Missing Charles Krauthammer
A posthumous collection edited by his son Daniel clarifies the great columnist's legacy to American, and to Jewish, discourse.Terry Teachout
The Death of Morton Sobell and the End of the Rosenberg Affair
With the recent death of the unrepentant spy, his story, along with that of other American Jews steeped in Communism, can finally be told.David Evanier
