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Hillel Halkin
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Contributor, Jewish Review of Books
New Jersey
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US Foreign Policy
business, fashion, politics
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By Malka Simkovich, Akiva Schick, Hillel Halkin, Yossi Shain| Jewish Review of Books@ In the late third century BCE, a group of scholars working on a translation project in Egypt invented a Greek word that would change the course of Jewish—and arguably human— history. The project was to render the Hebrew Torah into Koine Greek. According to a second-century BCE novella called the Letter of Aristeas, the Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus (the son of Alexander the Great’s general) commissioned a Greek translation of the Torah for the royal library.
By Amichai Chasson, Akiva Schick, Hillel Halkin, Matti Friedman Verified| Jewish Review of Books@ Some evenings, in the still calm of Massachusetts, I stretch out on the couch and open Google Maps. My fingers glide over that gleaming digital globe, from North America to the Middle East, and once they find Jerusalem, I start running the regular route I used to take, before I went into this temporary exile in North America.
By Malka Simkovich, Akiva Schick, Hillel Halkin, Yossi Shain| Jewish Review of Books@ In the late third century BCE, a group of scholars working on a translation project in Egypt invented a Greek word that would change the course of Jewish—and arguably human— history. The project was to render the Hebrew Torah into Koine Greek. According to a second-century BCE novella called the Letter of Aristeas, the Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus (the son of Alexander the Great’s general) commissioned a Greek translation of the Torah for the royal library.
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Jewish Review of Books
The Jewish Review of Books is a quarterly print publication with an active online presence for serious readers with Jewish interests. In our pages, leading writers and scholars discuss the newest books and ideas about religion, literature, culture, and politics, as well as fiction, poetry, and the arts. We are committed to the ideal of the thoughtful essay that illuminates as it entertains. The magazine was launched in 2010 with an editorial board that includes Michael Walzer and Ruth Wisse, Shlomo Avineri and Ruth Gavison. The editor is Abraham Socher. The magazine is funded by the Tikvah Fund, founded by Zalman Bernstein, which also sponsored the Jewish Ideas Daily. The initial press run was 30,000 copies. An affiliate of the fund, Bee.Ideas, LLC, also publishes Mosaic, a magazine launched in June 2013 as the successor to the Jewish Ideas Daily.
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