Escalating Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran are Another Legacy of the Nuclear Deal
With leverage over U.S. policy, Iran doesn’t need nuclear weapons to cause trouble.
January 6, 2016
Could the U.S. Have Done More to Slow the Progress of the Holocaust?
And why didn’t it?
The War Refugee Board (WRB), established by Franklin D. Roosevelt in January 1944, saved, or had a hand in saving, tens of thousands of Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazis. FDR’s public statement about the Holocaust on March 24 of the same year, in which he told the Germans directly that they would be held accountable for war crimes, may have saved additional lives. But John Pehle, the director of the WRB, also lobbied the War Department to do more, including bombing the rail lines to Auschwitz and the factories in the camp itself. In a thorough account of Pehle’s efforts, excerpted from his recent biography of FDR, Jay Winik writes:
January 6, 2016
Why Israel’s Official Rabbinate Should Relinquish Some of Its Power
It has reduced rabbis to bureaucrats subject to the temptations of patronage and corruption.
Could the U.S. Have Done More to Slow the Progress of the Holocaust?
And why didn’t it?
The Forced Convert to Christianity who Covertly Defended Judaism and the Jews
He professed a religion he continued to scorn.
A New Curriculum Tries to Insinuate BDS into Hebrew Schools
Teaching Jewish children to question Israel’s legitimacy.