The New Face of Hostility to Israel in Congress
Not anti-Semites, but those who see hostility toward the Jewish state as part and parcel of the progressive agenda.
August 5, 2019
Lithuania Struggles to Come to Terms with Its Checkered Jewish Past
Ruined cemeteries, celebrations of the Gaon, and the thorny question of collaboration with the Nazis.
Two weeks ago, the Vilnius (Vilna) city council voted to change the name of a street named for a Nazi collaborator and committed anti-Semite who was long considered a hero for fighting the Soviets during World War II. In April, a decision was made to take down a plaque elsewhere in the city honoring a similar figure. The Lithuanian parliament also voted to make 2020 the “Year of the Vilna Gaon and the History of the Jews of Lithuania,” to honor the 300th centennial of the birth of Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman—the famous talmudic genius who lived in what is now the country’s capital city. But, writes Raphael Ahren, the small former Soviet state’s reckoning with history remains complicated:
August 5, 2019
Iranian Militias Are in Iraq to Stay
The country is poised to become another Hizballah-stan.
After an Outbreak of Anti-Christian Violence, the Palestinian Authority Does Nothing
A Palestinian journalist’s rebuke.
Fewer People Won’t Make the World a Better Place
Prince Harry has it backward.
Lithuania Struggles to Come to Terms with Its Checkered Jewish Past
Ruined cemeteries, celebrations of the Gaon, and the thorny question of collaboration with the Nazis.