Eric Lawee, at The Blogs

Sep 15, 2024, 5:11 PM

On Jewish History After a Year of Severe Decrees

As the High Holydays beckon, questions about the horrors and tragedies that have engulfed so many individuals and the nation as a whole over the past year impose themselves with unbearable intensity. Into this maelstrom steps the weekly Torah...

May 15, 2024, 12:16 PM

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Bibi failed his father’s test

Benjamin Netanyahu with his father, Professor Benzion Netanyahu, in his Jerusalem home on February 5, 2009. (Nati Shohat/ Flash 90)

Time and again in Jewish history, leaders missed the signs that disaster was imminent. Netanyahu was supposed to be different

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Eric Lawee teaches in the Department of Bible at Bar-Ilan University. His most recent book, Rashi’s Commentary on the Torah: Canonization and Resistance in the Reception of a Jewish Classic, won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Scholarship.

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