Hamas Rockets Were Likely Responsible for a Third of the Palestinian Deaths in the Last Gaza War
By the logic of Israel’s critics, Nazi Germany was the victim in World War II and the U.S. the unlawful aggressor.
June 29, 2021
Henrich Heine’s Turn from Jerusalem to Athens, and Back to Jerusalem
The German-Jewish poet embraced “the Great Aristophanes of Heaven.”
Born to a Jewish family in Düsseldorf in 1797, Heinrich Heine attended university, became part of a scholarly circle that founded the academic discipline of Jewish studies, converted to Lutheranism (obtaining, in his own words, a “passport to European civilization”), and lived for most of his life in Paris, where he earned his reputation as one of the greatest poets in the German language. Reviewing a new biography of the poet by George Prochnik, along with a new translation of Heine’s Hebrew Melodies—a cycle of Jewish-themed poems—Neil Arditi notes that “no biography of Heine could possibly satisfy the demands of every Heine reader. Arditi writes:
June 29, 2021
In Israel, Gilad Shalit Is Everybody’s Son, and His Wedding Everybody’s Celebration
Rejoicing in the voice of the groom and voice of the bride in the towns of Judah.
America’s Presence in Iraq Deters, Rather Than Encourages, Iranian Aggression
The absurdity of complaints about “forever wars.”
Henrich Heine’s Turn from Jerusalem to Athens, and Back to Jerusalem
The German-Jewish poet embraced “the Great Aristophanes of Heaven.”
New Evidence Emerges of Elvis Presley’s Jewish Roots
The Star of David on his mother’s tombstone.