Israel’s Economy Thrives While the Middle East Disintegrates
From the Arab embargo to BDS, the Jewish state has won the economic war.
January 19, 2018
All Too Slowly, Germany Is Waking Up to Contemporary Anti-Semitism
Fire-bombing a synagogue isn’t “criticism of Israel.”
The German parliament is currently considering a bill that will punish anti-Semitic activity and that acknowledges the specific problem of anti-Semitism among migrants from Muslim countries—even allowing authorities to revoke their residency rights. Toward the end of 2017, the Bundestag also gave legal status to a definition of anti-Semitism that includes “placing collective responsibility on the Jewish people for Israel’s actions.” But, writes Eldad Beck, Germany still has a long way to go:
January 19, 2018
Can the U.S. Still Help Iran’s Anti-Government Movement?
Reversing eight years of appeasement.
All Too Slowly, Germany Is Waking Up to Contemporary Anti-Semitism
Fire-bombing a synagogue isn’t “criticism of Israel.”
How the Vatican’s Kidnapping of a Jewish Child in 1858 Started a Controversy in 2018
And why Catholics should condemn it.
Aharon Appelfeld’s Jewish Values and His Literary Style
A translator reminisces.