Iran Built a Facility to Develop Nuclear Weapons and Hid It from Inspectors during Negotiations with the West
The Shahid Mahalatti “pilot plant.”
April 13, 2020
In America and Israel, the Story of Soviet Jewry Is Being Rapidly Forgotten
The struggle for Jewish dignity that once sparked Jewish pride in millions is slipping from memory.
In 2016, Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov produced a documentary about the daring 1970 escape attempt—in which her parents were key players—that kicked off the refusenik movement in the Soviet Union and, just as importantly, the mass-movement among American Jews to help their coreligionists behind the Iron Curtain. To her great surprise, Zalmanson-Kuznetsov discovered during screenings of her film and other public events that few Israeli or American Jewish teenagers had any knowledge of the refuseniks or their plight. Izabella Tabarovsky comments:
April 13, 2020
Why the Israeli President Denied Benny Gantz’s Request for More Time to Form a Government
By taking away both sides’ chance to stall, Reuven Rivlin may have prevented a fourth election.
How Ultra-Orthodox Attitudes toward the Israeli State and the Duties of Citizenship Shaped the Response to the Coronavirus
Public-health measures or religious repression?
In America and Israel, the Story of Soviet Jewry Is Being Rapidly Forgotten
The struggle for Jewish dignity that once sparked Jewish pride in millions is slipping from memory.
A New Book Reveals Some Forgotten, but Remarkable, American Jewish Women
From Barbadian slave to respected member of New York’s Jewish elite.