Iran Gives in to Spy Mania
Is a senior general dead? Hospitalized? Arrested for espionage?
October 11, 2024
Is Lebanon Bringing the IDF Back to Its Old Way of Doing Things?
Hizballah is something more than a terrorist organization.
Meanwhile, the IDF carried out two separate airstrikes in Beirut last night, one of them hitting the city proper, rather than the Hizballah-dominated suburb of Dahiya. In trying to make sense of the progress of Israel’s campaign in Lebanon, I found very helpful both this in-depth conversation and this essay by Eran Ortal, even if much has happened since the latter was published two weeks ago. Among much else, Ortal puts the war in the context of IDF’s own history:
October 11, 2024
Is Lebanon Bringing the IDF Back to Its Old Way of Doing Things?
Hizballah is something more than a terrorist organization.
The Plot to Sabotage October 7 Commemorations
The ruse of “interfaith vigils.”
Remembering a Yom Kippur under Fire in Germany
Of survivors and scapegoats.
The Historic High Holy Day Prayer Books of the National Library of Israel
From medieval Worms to colonial New York.