Getting It Right in Afghanistan
Don’t underestimate al-Qaeda, defeat the Taliban, and keep Iran out.
August 23, 2017
Cuba’s Jewish History, from Columbus to the Present
A refuge for conversos, Holocaust refugees, and anti-Semitic terrorists.
Yosef ben Levy Ha-Ivri was a Spanish Jew who converted to Catholicism in 1492, just before Ferdinand and Isabella’s decree banishing Jews from the country went into effect. Shortly thereafter—now using the name Luis de Torres—he joined Christopher Columbus on his voyage across the Atlantic; legend has it that Columbus thought de Torres’s knowledge of Hebrew, Arabic, and other languages might be helpful in communicating with the natives. Less than a year after their arrival, de Torres died on the island of Cuba, the first known Jewish resident of the New World.
August 23, 2017
Raed Salah’s Terror Empire and the Recent Violence in Jerusalem
The Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement is well funded and influential.
In Belgium, Legalized Euthanasia Has Begun to Encroach on Religious Freedom
A Catholic hospital is ordered to facilitate the slaughter of the mentally ill.
Cuba’s Jewish History, from Columbus to the Present
A refuge for conversos, Holocaust refugees, and anti-Semitic terrorists.
How Jerry Lewis’s Comedy Captures the American Jewish Experience
The nutty professor’s inner Gentile.