Who’s Really Politicizing Israel?
Is there an argument that a diminished Israel is in the interest of the United States?
August 22, 2019
From Child of Jewish Immigrants to Fellow Traveler to Millionaire to Soviet Spy
How to succeed in espionage without really trying.
Born in 1918 to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, David Katz took the last name Karr and pursued a career in journalism, while moving in Communist circles and occasionally providing information to the FBI. During World War II he worked for the Office of War Information, but was fired after being hauled before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. His postwar successes reportedly made him the model for the main character in the bestselling novel How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying. And his story gets even stranger thereafter, as Fred Siegel writes in his review of the new biography of Karr by the historian Harvey Klehr:
August 22, 2019
The Dangers of Donald Trump’s Talk of Jewish Disloyalty
Not a determination for an American president to make.
The French Jews Who Fought the Nazis and Brought the “Exodus” to Israel
A forgotten part of a well-known story.
When the Ukrainian KGB Apologized for the Persecution of a Rabbi
The arrest records of Levi Yitzḥak Schneerson.
From Child of Jewish Immigrants to Fellow Traveler to Millionaire to Soviet Spy
How to succeed in espionage without really trying.