Hizballah’s Next War Will Be Waged in the Court of Public Opinion
Making Israel seem brutal.
November 7, 2018
In Pittsburgh, American Jewry Lost Its Innocence—but Not for the First Time
The U.S. has a long history of anti-Semitism, but it’s always been different.
More than one writer and speaker commenting on the slaughter in Pittsburgh has referred to it as a “loss of innocence” for American Jews, who, supposedly, have assumed such things happen or once happened in Europe, or in Israel, but don’t happen here. But, explains Jonathan Sarna, American Jews had a similar reaction in 1958 after a bomb equivalent to 50 sticks of dynamite—likely planted by anti-Semitic opponents of desegregation—destroyed a synagogue in Atlanta, even though there had been at least a half-dozen bombings or attempted bombings of Jewish sites in the South during the previous twelve months. To Sarna, these expressions of astonishment that “it can happen here” are a perennial feature of American Jewish life. He urges a sense of perspective:
November 7, 2018
A New U.S Law May Finally Force the Palestinian Authority to Reconsider Its Support for Terror
Lawsuits from terror victims could be fatal to its finances.
The Women’s March Has an Anti-Semitism Problem
Admiration for Farrakhan and Hamas.
In Pittsburgh, American Jewry Lost Its Innocence—but Not for the First Time
The U.S. has a long history of anti-Semitism, but it’s always been different.
Ankara’s Abandoned Jewish Quarter
Once home to a large, if overlooked, community.