An Obscure Island off the Coast of Africa Highlights France’s Hypocrisy over Jerusalem
The case of Mayotte.
May 29, 2018
Heinrich Heine: The Baptized Genius Who Could Never Give Up on Jewishness or the Jews
Wit, exile, Jew, convert, genius.
In 1825, Heinrich Heine—then a twenty-eight-year-old German Jew—obtained his baptismal certificate, convinced that what he would later call “the admission ticket to European civilization” was a prerequisite to any future ambitions. But even as a Protestant he never found his hoped-for success in law or government, instead becoming one of the greatest poets of his day. Perhaps in keeping with his famously guarded attitude toward so many things, he also maintained an ambivalence toward his Jewish origins. In an essay on the poet, Joseph Epstein writes:
May 29, 2018
How to Stop China from Providing an Economic Lifeline to Iran
The U.S and its allies have more leverage than in the Obama years.
British Royals in the Land of Israel, Then and Now
From Richard the Lionheart to Prince William.
Heinrich Heine: The Baptized Genius Who Could Never Give Up on Jewishness or the Jews
Wit, exile, Jew, convert, genius.
The Myth of the Ellis Island Name Change
Jews, and others, changed their names voluntarily.