Try as It Might, the U.S. Can’t Disengage from the Middle East
Hasty withdrawals lead to hasty re-engagements.
April 9, 2019
In France Now, Anti-Semitism Is Both Ubiquitous and Invisible—Just as It Was a Century Ago
Alain Finkielkraut and Charles Péguy.
In February, the prominent French intellectual Alain Finkielkraut, an outspoken defender of the Jews and persistent critic of radical Islam, found himself recognized and then attacked by a small mob of Yellow Vest protestors, who shouted anti-Semitic epithets at him along with generic insults. Considering this incident as well as Finkielkraut’s work and thought, Paul Berman compares him with the turn-of-the-20th-century poet and essayist Charles Péguy, another man of the moderate left who stood up for the Jews. Péguy was simultaneously a devout Catholic, a defender of Alfred Dreyfus’s innocence, and a nationalist:
April 9, 2019
How Soviet Propaganda and an Affection for Dictators Turned South Africa against Israel
Where BDS is policy.
In France Now, Anti-Semitism Is Both Ubiquitous and Invisible—Just as It Was a Century Ago
Alain Finkielkraut and Charles Péguy.
An Ancient Depiction of a Nine-Branched Menorah Discovered in the Negev
Religious observance on the fringes of Judea.
A German Army Seder in the Midst of World War I
Led by the future rector of Hebrew University.