How a Plea Deal for Benjamin Netanyahu Could Shake Up Israeli Politics
With the former prime minister out of the picture, would the coalition survive?
January 27, 2022
Finding Hope in the Jewish Story
What Jews can learn from what the Wampanoag wanted to learn about them.
More than half a century ago, Salo Baron—the first person to hold a chair in Jewish history at an American university—criticized the “lachrymose conception” of Jewish history, which sees the story of the Jews as one of unending travail and persecution. Dara Horn in her recent book People Love Dead Jews, explores the flip side of this phenomenon, whereby Gentiles are eager to hold up Jewish suffering for the lessons it supposedly teaches, but have little interest in, or even tolerance for, Jews’ pursuit of their national, religious, or artistic goals. Recalling a very different encounter, with people who wished to learn from Jewish successes, Horn writes:
January 27, 2022
The Problems with Ilhan Omar’s Anti-Islamophobia Bill
Would it lead the State Department to censure those who condemn Hizballah or the Taliban?
Finding Hope in the Jewish Story
What Jews can learn from what the Wampanoag wanted to learn about them.
A Newly Arrived Economist’s Impressions of Israel
From the Odyssey to Israeli television.
Hamas Renovates a Historic Byzantine Church, While Covering Up Its Persecution of Christians
Mosaics almost as rare as worshippers.