A U.S. Withdrawal from Syria Would Help Russia, Iran, and Islamic State
But not America or the Syrian people.
August 21, 2019
In the Same Barren Holy Land, Mark Twain and Nahmanides Saw Very Different Things
1267, 1867, and 1967.
In 1867, the journalist Samuel Clemens visited the Land of Israel with a group of American pilgrims; he described what he saw there in The Innocents Abroad, published two years later. The place described as so lush in the Hebrew Bible appeared to him to be barren and dispiriting. The nearer he and his fellow travelers came to Jerusalem, “the more rocky and bare, repulsive and dreary the landscape became.” As Meir Soloveichik notes, the exiled Spanish rabbi Moses Naḥmanides formed a strikingly similar impression when he arrived there 600 years prior. But with a difference:
August 21, 2019
What Can Be Learned from the Memoirs of Two Israeli Prime Ministers Whose Terms Ended in Failure?
A tale of two Ehuds.
In the Same Barren Holy Land, Mark Twain and Nahmanides Saw Very Different Things
1267, 1867, and 1967.
The Francophone Greek Jewish Novelist Who Wrote the International Law on Refugees, Identified Rising Anti-Semitism, and Mocked the League of Nations
Albert Cohen: Zionist, novelist, and lawyer.
The Failure of Spain’s Offer of Citizenship to Sephardi Jews
Expensive and burdensome red tape has discouraged applicants.