How Israel Helps Uphold the U.S.-Backed Liberal International Order
The moral blindness of condemning Jerusalem for its relations with Moscow.
October 16, 2019
In the Face of Anti-Semitism, Angela Merkel Says Much and Does Little
Promising to fight anti-Semitism while shielding Hizballah.
Commenting on the attack at a synagogue in the German city of Halle on Yom Kippur, which left two dead, the retired British officer Richard Kemp observed that Chancellor Angela Merkel responded, “as always, [with] words only, when action is needed.” Benjamin Weinthal, elaborating on Kemp’s remark, notes that the attack comes alongside a pattern of German official tolerance toward anti-Semitism:
October 16, 2019
In the Face of Anti-Semitism, Angela Merkel Says Much and Does Little
Promising to fight anti-Semitism while shielding Hizballah.
How Dwight Eisenhower Came to the Jews’ Aid after the Holocaust
Helping to memorialize the Shoah and to protect survivors.
The Head of an Ultra-Orthodox Yeshiva and His Surprisingly Good Pseudonymous Novel
The Idiom and the Oddity.
The Ancient Greeks and Romans, but Not the Jews, Believed in Mythical Creatures
Dissecting a tendentious new-atheist attack on the Hebrew Bible.