The Fighting Ends for Now, but the Threat from Gaza Remains
Israel has no quarrel with Hamas, but that makes no difference to Hamas.
May 7, 2019
How Two U.S. Officers Became Jewish Librarians in Allied-Occupied Germany
The looted books of Offenbach.
After taking the German city of Offenbach near the end of World War II, American forces found hundreds of boxes of books, recently moved there by the Nazis from nearby Frankfurt-am-Main when the latter came under bombardment. The task of sorting these books, mostly looted from Jewish libraries, fell to one Captain Isaac Benkowitz. Daniel Lipson explains:
May 7, 2019
The Logic of Palestinian Blackmail
Whether from Hamas or from the Palestinian Authority.
A Publishing House Withdraws a Novel after It Was Attacked for Being Pro-Israel
Claiming objection to “Islamophobia,” when the real objection is to Zionism.
How Two U.S. Officers Became Jewish Librarians in Allied-Occupied Germany
The looted books of Offenbach.
What Canadian Jewry Gets Right
A new survey shows that it’s thriving in ways American Jewry isn’t.