Sudan’s Long Road to Peace with Israel
There were many overtures of friendship before last week’s historic announcement.
October 26, 2020
How Varian Fry Saved Hundreds of Jews from Hitler
To the consternation of the American authorities.
While Britain had barred the gates of Palestine to Jewish immigration, and the U.S. did the same regarding its own shores, an American Gentile journalist named Varian Fry undertook a vast, private operation to rescue Jews from the Nazis. Most of his beneficiaries were German Jewish artists and intellectuals who had fled to France after Hitler’s rise to power, and found themselves again in danger after the French capitulation to the Nazis in 1940. Anya Schiffrin—whose grandfather, the Russian-born Jewish publisher Jacques Schiffrin owed his life to Fry—writes:
October 26, 2020
The Dangers of a Hasty Retreat from Afghanistan
The U.S. should learn from its mistakes in Iraq.
Andrew Cuomo again Provokes Antipathy toward New York’s Jews
His claims about a giant ḥasidic wedding don’t withstand scrutiny.
The Bible’s Defense of Cities
The Tower of Babel, Jerusalem, and the (Jewish) city of God.
How Varian Fry Saved Hundreds of Jews from Hitler
To the consternation of the American authorities.