To Fight Terror, Follow the Money
A recent extradition of a South American money-launderer is a step in the right direction.
July 29, 2019
How American Passivity in the Face of the Holocaust Left Its Mark on Robert Morgenthau
His father’s pleas to FDR accomplished little.
Robert Morgenthau, who died on July 21 ten days shy of his 100th birthday, had a long career as a U.S. attorney and as Manhattan district attorney. A decorated World War II veteran, he was the son and grandson of two of the most prominent Jews in American public life: Henry Morgenthau, Sr., a real-estate baron who had served as ambassador to the Ottoman empire, and Henry Jr., who was Franklin Roosevelt’s secretary of the treasury. Robert Morgenthau had little to do, publicly, with Jewish affairs, yet they affected him deeply. Steven I. Weiss writes:
July 29, 2019
Russia’s Growing Soft Power in the Middle East
Increasingly, Arabs see Moscow as a more trustworthy ally.
How the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Continued His War against the Jews after 1948
And anointed Yasir Arafat as his successor.
How American Passivity in the Face of the Holocaust Left Its Mark on Robert Morgenthau
His father’s pleas to FDR accomplished little.
An Enormous Staircase from a Canaanite Palace Found in Northern Israel
From the time of Joshua.