If Saudi Arabia Can Make Peace with Israel, Why Not Pakistan?
Islamabad has much to gain, and much prejudice to overcome.
July 14, 2022
How Anne Frank Crafted Her Diary, and Why It Matters
“It would be quite funny ten years after the war if we Jews were to tell how we lived and what we ate and talked about here.”
Between March 28, 1944 and her capture by the SS on August 4, Anne Frank began methodically revising her diary—with the hope of publishing it as a book after the war ended. She was inspired to do so, Ruth Franklin explains, by a radio broadcast from the Dutch government in exile calling on citizens to help preserve materials that could be used to document the country’s experience under Nazi occupation. “But, seriously,” she wrote in response to the broadcast, “it would be quite funny ten years after the war if we Jews were to tell how we lived and what we ate and talked about here.” Franklin goes on to note what can be learned from the revisions of the diary, and the various versions that have been preserved in manuscript form:
July 14, 2022
How Radical European Ideologies Corrupted the Arab World—and Fostered Anti-Semitism
What Islamism shares with the global left.
Jordan Isn’t Rushing to Embrace Syria
And the U.S. should discourage it from doing so.
Jewish Organizations Should Be Proud to Call Themselves “Jewish”
What are they willing to give up in pursuit of inclusiveness?
How Anne Frank Crafted Her Diary, and Why It Matters
“It would be quite funny ten years after the war if we Jews were to tell how we lived and what we ate and talked about here.”