Hichem Karoui

By Jimmy Carter

This op-ed was published in the Sept. 6, 2009 issue of The Washington Post.

During the past 16 months I have visited the Middle East four times and met with leaders in Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza. I was in Damascus when President Obama made his historic [...]

We are all Rashi’s heirs, but what, exactly, is our inheritance?

Adam Kirsch,  The New Republic Published:  August  2009

A page from an early printing of the Talmud with Rashi’s commentary. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

“For two thousand years,” wrote Harold Rosenberg, “the main energies of Jewish communities have gone into the mass production of intellectuals.” For Rosenberg, [...]