Why the U.S. Should Stand with Saudi Arabia in Its War in Yemen
No sane government would accept Iranian missiles on its border.
December 4, 2018
A 19th-Century Poem Celebrating the Maccabees, and the Jews’ Place in England
Marion and Celia Moss, poets “of the Hebrew nation.”
In 1839, two young English sisters, Marion and Celia Moss, published a collection of poems whose title boldly identified them as belonging to “the Hebrew nation.” Just nine years prior, a bill intended to give British Jews nearly equal rights to their Gentile compatriots was defeated in parliament. One of the Mosses’ poems memorializes the events in York in the year 1190, when the local Jewish community took refuge in a castle and then committed mass suicide rather than face slaughter or conversion at the hands of a Christian mob. Lauding these Jews’ courage, the poem invokes the Maccabean revolt:
December 4, 2018
Why the Slogan “From the River to the Sea . . . ” Is a Call for the Destruction of Israel
Palestine will be free—of Jews.
Remembering What George H.W. Bush Did for the Jews, Even within a Decidedly Mixed Legacy
The late president helped bring Jews to the land of Israel.
A 19th-Century Poem Celebrating the Maccabees, and the Jews’ Place in England
Marion and Celia Moss, poets “of the Hebrew nation.”
A Cuneiform Tablet Is Rare Evidence of Babylonian Presence in Samaria
A 6th-century-BCE record of purchasing a slave.