Saudi-Israeli Cooperation Takes a Tentative Step Out of the Shadows
For the first time, an Israeli commercial jet landed in Riyadh.
November 10, 2021
A Great Austrian Jewish Writer’s Diaries of Europe on the Edge of the Holocaust
“A drunken madman has taken hold of the world’s rudder and is sending us zigzagging into the abyss.”
Best known for his memoir The World of Yesterday—an elegy for the pre-World War I Hapsburg empire—the Austrian Jewish writer Stefan Zweig also wrote fiction, biographies, and much else, becoming one of the most popular German-language writers of his day. His work even inspired a 2014 film by the director Wes Anderson. Reviewing Zweig’s diaries from the years 1931 to 1940, recently published in English, Robert Philpot writes:
November 10, 2021
Israel Doesn’t Need External Pressure to Maintain Its Democratic and Moral Values
Going hunting without an accordion.
How Jewish Voice for Peace Went from Fig-Leaf for Anti-Zionists to Major Source of Anti-Semitic Propaganda
Linda Sarsour gets her talking points from JVP, while JVP activists protest alongside white supremacists.
“Above All, Judaism Is a Religion”
One of the 20th century’s greatest Jewish historians reflects on the Jewish predicament.
A Great Austrian Jewish Writer’s Diaries of Europe on the Edge of the Holocaust
“A drunken madman has taken hold of the world’s rudder and is sending us zigzagging into the abyss.”