Why the UN Human Rights Council Can’t Be Reformed
Despite American efforts.
February 19, 2021
A Yiddish Journalist’s Rare and Honest Account of Stalin’s Brutalization of Ukraine
Jews were both victims and victimizers.
By 1932, Abraham Cahan, the editor of the Forverts—America’s most significant Jewish newspaper—remained a committed socialist, but was also a fierce opponent of Soviet Communism, having realized early on that not only Stalin, but also Lenin and Trotsky, were unscrupulous tyrants. Seeking accurate information about the situation there, he sent the Ukrainian-born Jewish journalist Mendel Osherowitch to the USSR. Osherowitch’s dispatches were collected into a book, which was published the next year and, at long last, has been translated into English. Mark Glanville writes in his review:
February 19, 2021
How Official Statistics Distort the Situation of Israel’s Poor and Keep Alive Failed Government Programs
Do a third of Israeli children really live in poverty?
Don’t Look to Russia for Help in Dealing with Iran
If the U.S. wants to be tough on Moscow, it should pay attention to the Kremlin’s goals in the Middle East.
A Yiddish Journalist’s Rare and Honest Account of Stalin’s Brutalization of Ukraine
Jews were both victims and victimizers.
What Is the Meaning of Jewish History?
And does it have religious significance?