Will Syria’s New Government Support Hamas?
How the West should approach rulers who mourned the death of Yahya Sinwar.
December 12, 2024
A Soviet-Jewish Writer’s Post-Stalin Novel
Ilya Ehrenburg, “Stalin’s favorite Jew.”
How Vladimir Putin will respond to these setbacks is anyone’s guess. But Leon Aron contends that something can be learned about his regime by looking at a largely forgotten short Russian novel, which testifies to “mankind’s ineradicable yearning for the dignity in gaining moral autonomy from the totalitarian state.”
December 12, 2024
The Fall of Assad Is a Blow to Russia’s Imperial Ambitions
Its effects will be felt from Ukraine to Niger.
A Soviet-Jewish Writer’s Post-Stalin Novel
Ilya Ehrenburg, “Stalin’s favorite Jew.”
The Pope Pays Homage to Baby Jesus Swaddled in a Keffiyeh, and Then Changes Course
Nativity of Bethlehem 2024.
When Kabbalah Came to the Masses
The printing press and Jewish mysticism.