Stuck Between Its Two Sponsors Iran and Qatar, Hamas Loses Influence at Home
Most likely, only those on its payroll show up for its rallies.
February 5, 2019
How Lenin’s Great-Grandfather Shaped Tsarist Jewish Policies
A Jewish convert to Christianity who became an informer.
Perhaps the most influential anti-Semitic text in 19th-century Russia was The Book of the Kahal—a precursor to, and major influence on, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Its author, Yakov Brafman (1825-1879), was a Jewish convert to Christianity. And he was not the only Russian Jewish convert to use his status to defame his people before an all-too-credulous Russian audience. In fact, the tsar’s secret police kept careful lists of converts who could serve as informers. Among them was Dmitry Ivanovich (né Moshe Itzkovich) Blank, who has the added distinction of being the great-grandfather of Vladimir Lenin. Hadassah Assouline writes:
February 5, 2019
A Papal Visit to the United Arab Emirates Bodes Well for the Region, and for Israel
A model for tolerance in a sea of radicalism.
How Human Rights Watch Became a Pawn of Terrorists
From protesting Soviet crimes to inventing Israeli ones.
How Lenin’s Great-Grandfather Shaped Tsarist Jewish Policies
A Jewish convert to Christianity who became an informer.
What Ordinary Bibles Looked Like in Medieval Egypt
Written from memory.