Editors' Picks
Sept. 22
When It Comes to Peace with Israel, Many Saudis Have Religious ConcernsUNESCO Can’t Admit a Biblical City’s Connection to Jewish HistoryThe Israeli Right Seems to Be Pointing toward a New Way of Avoiding Constitutional CrisisReports of the Death of the Synagogue Have Been Highly ExaggeratedA High Holiday Prayerbook Dedicated to an American Jewish Soldier in Dutch
Sept. 21
President Biden Should Learn the Lessons of Past U.S. Attempts to Solve the Israel-Palestinian ConflictAcademic Freedom, for Anti-Semites AloneTheocracy Is No Cure for the Demoralization of SocietyThe Pilgrims, the Rabbis, and the BibleHow the First Yom Kippur in Japan Put an 800-Year-Old Debate to the Test
Sept. 20
Mahmoud Abbas’s Latest Anti-Semitic Rant Should Come as No SurpriseThe Abraham Accords and Their Namesake
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Podcast: Daniel Rynhold on Thinking Repentance Through

Podcast: Daniel Rynhold on Thinking Repentance Through

A Jewish philosopher stops by to talk about how Jews—and one major non-Jew—have thought about repentance.

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September: The Perennial Power of the Nakba

The Perennial Power of the Nakba
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The Perennial Power of the Nakba

How generations of Arab thinkers and leaders tried to turn the humiliation of their losses to Israel into a springboard to launch their nations into an enchanted new age.

"This Is the Yom Kippur of"

"This Is the Yom Kippur of"

In the wake of the Yom Kippur War, the words yom kippur shel, “the Yom Kippur of,” have referred in Israeli speech to any debacle that might have been prevented by better judgment.

Philologos
Podcast: Jon Levenson on Understanding the Binding of Isaac as the Bible Understands It

Podcast: Jon Levenson on Understanding the Binding of Isaac as the Bible Understands It

The temptation is overwhelming to excuse or soften the drama of Genesis 22. A leading professor of Jewish thought explains how to get past that, and what meaning lies beyond it.

Jon D. Levenson and Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic
What Forgiveness Shares with Forgetting

What Forgiveness Shares with Forgetting

In both Hebrew and English.

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