Slowly but Surely, Israel’s Ties with the Gulf States Are Coming Out into the Open
Next year in Dubai?
May 2, 2019
Instagramming the Holocaust
A fresh approach to education about the Shoah is necessary, but this isn’t it.
In honor of Yom Hashoah, an Instagram account called “Eva’s Stories” was created to post a video adaptation of the diary of a Hungarian Jewish girl named Eva Heiman, documenting her life in the months before she was shipped to Auschwitz. (She died shortly thereafter.) The video, which runs for 70 minutes altogether, was divided into brief snippets that then appeared on the site at 30-minute intervals over the course of a day. Amy Newman Smith comments:
May 2, 2019
Anti-Semitism Hasn’t Gone Away—but Jews Need No Longer Feel Powerless
The Israeli ambassador’s reflections on Yom Hashoah.
A Captive American Journalist Sheds His Naïveté about the Islamic Republic
Because Iran’s theocrats deal only in subterfuge, conspiracy, and lies, they imagine everyone else does, too.
The Myth That Poverty Causes Terrorism Refuses to Die
Even as evidence to the contrary continues to grow.
Instagramming the Holocaust
A fresh approach to education about the Shoah is necessary, but this isn’t it.