January 22, 2019
An Iranian Professor Recalls His First Encounter with a Jew
A Jewish community forced into hiding and occasionally paraded before credulous journalists.
According to the Islamic Republic’s official line—frequently repeated by credulous Western journalists—the country’s small Jewish community enjoys toleration and good treatment so long as its members renounce Zionism and denounce Israel. The reality is very different, as Majid Rafizadeh discovered when, teaching at a university in his native Iran, he delivered a lecture to his students about the Holocaust in violation of the ban on discussing the subject in the classroom. He discovered afterward that one of his students, the first Jew he had ever met, had relatives who were killed in the Shoah:
January 22, 2019
Why Israel’s Relations with Chad Matter
The road to good relations with the Muslim world doesn’t run through Ramallah.
An Iranian Professor Recalls His First Encounter with a Jew
A Jewish community forced into hiding and occasionally paraded before credulous journalists.
Two New Translations Attempt to Bring Avrom Sutzkever’s Poetry into English
“Lava its seeds. Atoms/ Fermented forth primevally.”
New York State’s Regulations for Private Schools Threaten Religious Freedom
Today’s suggestions could be tomorrow’s mandates.