With the Inevitable Breakdown of Hostage Negotiations, Israel Faces a New Gaza Dilemma
Pressures domestic, international, and military.
August 12, 2025
Discovering the Crypto-Jews of Portugal
After five centuries of hiding.
In 1917, a Jewish mining engineer named Samuel Schwartz arrived in northeastern Portugal to work. His local contacts warned him against doing business with the residents of certain villages, as they were Jews and therefore swindlers. A native of Poland, Schwartz was unsurprised by this sort of prejudice, but didn’t expect to find coreligionists in a place where the practice of Judaism had been illegal for five centuries. Henry Abramson tells the story of what Schwartz found. (Video, 7 minutes.)
August 12, 2025
How Israel’s Siege of Hamas Collapsed
Feeding the enemy.
When “Journalists” Are Legitimate Military Targets
Anas al-Sharif was a Hamas operative. He was also an information warrior.
The Government Should Stop Funding Charities That Turn Themselves into Platforms for Anti-Israel Propaganda
Teach for Palestine, but not for Israel.
Discovering the Crypto-Jews of Portugal
After five centuries of hiding.
An Inscription from Jewish Rebels Found in the Caves of the Judean Desert
“Abba of Naburya has perished.”