Why Won’t the State Department Call the Extermination of Middle Eastern Christians “Genocide”?
Echoes of FDR?
February 18, 2016
Howard Jacobson’s Updated “Merchant of Venice” Turns the Original on Its Head
Shylock Is My Name.
Howard Jacobson, the well-known author of novels about English Jews and English anti-Semitism, has retold Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and set it in 21st-century Britain. In Shylock Is My Name, writes Adam Kirsch in his review, Jacobson has masterfully recast the story, using it to probe both anti-Semitism and Jewish fears:
February 18, 2016
The Knesset Has Every Right to Suspend Unruly Members
Refuting the latest canard about Israeli democracy.
Hamas Exports Its Tactics to Yemen
It’s unlikely Saudi Arabia has committed “war crimes.”
Howard Jacobson’s Updated “Merchant of Venice” Turns the Original on Its Head
Shylock Is My Name.
7,000-Year-Old Houses Found in Jerusalem
Pushing the city’s origins into the Copper Age.