Book review
Your Taxes: Does Israel need to tax billionaires?
In practice, taxation is cat and mouse. New rules result in new tax planning techniques. It is unclear whether family members would each have a $100 million threshold.
'My Other Half': Sex, drugs, rock & roll, philosophy, and cynicism - book review
'Our Partisan Kingdom' and 'Written in a Barn': Holocaust survival up close and personal - review
'Children of Abraham': Over a millennium of Jewish-Muslim relations - review
'The Jewish March of Folly': Vindicating Zionism while warning the Jewish People - review
Whether or not author Amotz Asa-El agrees with this alternative analysis, or others, he has done such a masterful job of creating and sharpening his historical lens that many now apply it with ease.
Amotz Asa-El’s 'The Jewish Mach of Folly’ warns of an Israeli civil war’s approach - interview
From the civil wars of biblical Israel to the divisions that preceded Oct. 7, Amotz Asa-El’s bestseller presents a warning the Jewish people have repeatedly failed to heed.
'Israel on Trial': US Judge Roy K. Altman takes on accusations against the Jewish state - review
A nascent state has to fulfill four requirements: have a permanent population, a defined territory, be governed by a single effective government, and have the capacity to conduct foreign relations.
'Reclaiming Redemption Vol. II': Tracing Jewish survival from exile to war - book review
Moshe Taragin’s wartime essays argue that Jewish faith is carried not only through ideas, but through the people whose resilience has preserved it across history.
'Jewish, Christian and Islamic Traditions': Jerusalem and its names - review
The book offers a perspective on how language itself shapes the identity, and holiness of Jerusalem.
'Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land': America’s relationship with the Torah - review
The language America reaches for, at its best moments and its worst, has always been ours. Not borrowed. Ours. We wrote the story it keeps retelling. We are still here to see how it ends.
'Stalin’s Apostles': The Cambridge Five and the lost world of Jewish Communism - review
From elite universities to Soviet handlers, the Cambridge Five helped Stalin penetrate Britain’s security and decision-making core.
'Kotsuji's Gift': The Japanese scholar who rescued Jewish refugees during World War II - review
The picture is cropped. A Japanese man standing to one side has been cut away. That man is Kotsuji, and the book is the long work of putting him back.
'Engaging the Essence': The Lubavitcher Rebbe as philosopher - review
While the Rebbe did not write a system, he spoke to occasions for 40 years. Bronstein anchors the structure of the Rebbe’s talks in his first discourse of 1951.
'Joseph Albo': A sweeping map of Jewish belief - review
This influential vision of Judaism places belief and commitment, not philosophy, at the heart of salvation.