November 25, 2020
How the Mossad Saved a Biblical Deer Species from Iran
Snuck out just before the revolution.
Among the undomesticated mammals listed as kosher in the book of Deuteronomy, is the yaḥmur, usually thought to be the fallow deer or roebuck. The creature is mentioned only one other time in the Hebrew Bible, in the book of Kings, which states that the daily provisioning of Solomon’s palace included “ten fattened oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, and 100 sheep and goats, besides deer and gazelles, fallow deer and fatted geese.” While this species was once plentiful in the Land of Israel, they were thought to have become extinct in the 19th century—until, in the 1950s, a small population was discovered in Persia. Aaron Reich recounts the remarkable rescue operation that ensued, details of which only recently became public knowledge:
November 25, 2020
Mike Pompeo’s Historic Visit to Israel Recognizes Realities, and Jewish Rights
A not-unprecedented trip to the Golan and a stop at a legal settlement.
Anti-Semitism Has No Place at the Pentagon
With Douglas Macgregor, Republicans have their own Ilhan Omar.
How the Mossad Saved a Biblical Deer Species from Iran
Snuck out just before the revolution.
A New Science-Fiction Movie Explores What Happens When the Future Goes to War with the Past
Tenet and the tenets of progressivism.