The Attacks on Jews Nobody Talks about
Attacks that can’t be connected to Israel or to Donald Trump.
May 3, 2019
How Jerusalem Rabbis Used Kabbalistic Magic to Try to Defeat Hitler
By slaughtering roosters on an airplane.
In the 1930s, Jerusalem had become a major center for the study of Kabbalah, bringing together scholars from throughout Eastern Europe and the Middle East. As news of Adolf Hitler’s designs on the Jews arrived in the Land of Israel, some of these rabbis began to consider esoteric rituals and incantations to thwart those plans. Taking action began to seem all the more urgent in the summer of 1940, when German forces were moving across Egypt toward Palestine. Drawing on scattered evidence and sources, Yuval Harari describes these attempts, including the most dramatic and controversial, which took place in 1942:
May 3, 2019
A Recent Ruling against an Anti-Boycott Law Misconstrues Precedent
Wrongheaded invocations of the First Amendment in defense of BDS.
How Anti-Zionism Has Normalized Anti-Semitism
Only one form of hatred of Jews is acceptable in polite society.
How Jerusalem Rabbis Used Kabbalistic Magic to Try to Defeat Hitler
By slaughtering roosters on an airplane.
A Poetic Reflection on Israel’s Two Days of National Mourning
“A Week Apart.”