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Is Blood Thicker than Holy Water?

Remembering Bar Yohai—and Bar Kokhba

On Lag BaOmer, which begins tomorrow night, we commemorate not only the yahrzeit of Tannaic rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai but also the Bar Kokhba revolt.Confessions of a British Zionist

"I am a Zionist because there is something inherently myopic, ignorant, and nasty about present-day anti-Zionism that must be confronted."Warning Notes

Jewish composer Arnold Schoenberg could not have anticipated the future for Vienna's Jews, but a piece entitled "Premonition" reflects growing anti-Semitism 30 years before the Holocaust.“The Myth of Mental Illness”

Jewish psychiatrist Thomas Szasz denounced his field as "a threat to civil liberties" and stated that "Freud and the psychoanalysts" had replaced "the totalitarian leader and his apologists."Moses, the Philosopher King

Through his rationales for the commandments, Josephus bolsters his conception of Moses "as a kind of philosopher king whose legislation was totally wise and just."“The Myth of Mental Illness”