The U.S. Must Punish Iran for Its Human-Rights Violations
Name, shame, and punish the repressors.
November 8, 2018
An American Jew’s Failed Attempt to Create a Temporary Zion in Upstate New York
Mordecai Manuel Noah’s Ararat.
At various points in his life, the Philadelphia-born Mordecai Manuel Noah (1785-1851) was, in Jenna Weissman Joselit’s words, “a politician and a playwright, a man about town, a journalist, and a diplomat in Tunis, where he jousted with pirates.” But perhaps his best-known exploit was his attempt to transform Grand Island—a richly forested bit of land in the Niagara River, not far from Buffalo, NY—into a refuge for European Jews fleeing persecution and poverty. He called the putative settlement Ararat. Joselit writes:
November 8, 2018
An Iraqi Writer Attacks Prejudice against Jews
And praises Iraqi Jews’ contribution to their country.
The Dangers of Universalizing Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semites declare that “all Jews must die”; others change the subject.
How Kibbutzim Succeeded Despite the Laws of Economics
Making socialism work—to a degree.
An American Jew’s Failed Attempt to Create a Temporary Zion in Upstate New York
Mordecai Manuel Noah’s Ararat.