China and the Climate-Change-Palestine Convergence
Can you care about the environment without hating Israel?
September 22, 2026
“I’m Not a Jew, but I Take the Assumption as a Compliment”
Reflections of a historian of Lebanese Jewry.
Perhaps because senior Israeli and Lebanese officials have held public meetings (violating a strict longtime taboo), perhaps because Hizballah’s power is weakening, or perhaps for other reasons altogether, there has been, in Franck Salameh’s words, “a renewed curiosity about Lebanon’s own Jewish past” among Lebanese. Having written a book about the country’s Jews, Salameh—a Lebanese Christian—has begun receiving questions from compatriots who assume he must be a Jew himself:
September 22, 2026
“I’m Not a Jew, but I Take the Assumption as a Compliment”
Reflections of a historian of Lebanese Jewry.
Robert Kraft and the Pro-Israel Businessman’s Dilemma
How to make Macklemore into a fool rather than a martyr.
The Dangers to a West That Has Lost All Sense of Meaning
Something new will replace Christianity. And it won’t be good.
The Name “Moses” Is Hebraic, Not Egyptian
Why biblical names were unlikely to have been the inventions of later scribes.