A Nuclear Deal with Iran Will Not Strengthen Its Supposed Moderates
This is not Deng Xiaoping taking over from the Maoists.
May 28, 2015
Léon Blum: The Jewish Prime Minister of France Who Wanted to Fight Hitler
France's first Jewish prime minister fought Vichy and survived a trip to Dachau.
The socialist (and anti-Soviet) politician Léon Blum was France’s first Jewish prime minister from 1936 to 1938. After Paris fell to the Nazis in 1940, Blum was one of a small group of parliamentarians who wanted France to keep fighting. He was promptly imprisoned by the Vichy regime. In April 1943, he was deported to Buchenwald and from there to Dachau, but survived the war and briefly returned to French politics. Herewith, an excerpt from a new biography by Pierre Birnbaum:
May 28, 2015
How Israel’s Withdrawal from Lebanon Gave Rise to Today’s Middle East
Fifteen years ago last Sunday, Israel withdrew.
Has Israel’s Chief Rabbinate Declared War on Modern Orthodoxy?
A leading Modern Orthodox rabbi is being forced out.
Léon Blum: The Jewish Prime Minister of France Who Wanted to Fight Hitler
France's first Jewish prime minister fought Vichy and survived a trip to Dachau.
Lady Stanhope, the British Eccentric Who Brought Archaeology to the Land of Israel
"Suddenly, along comes a woman dressed like a man, riding a horse . . ."