Netanyahu’s Plan for Reforming the Supreme Court Is Anything but Undemocratic
The court has power without parallel in any other democracy.
May 14, 2015
No, Russia Is Not the Historical Protector of the Jews
Pro-Russian apologists distorting history? Never.
Russia has repeatedly presented itself as fighting “fascism” in order to justify its piecemeal conquest of Ukraine. At the same time, pro-Russian apologists have been making much of the liberation of the Nazi death camps by the Red Army—even as Putin himself has praised the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact. James Kirchick argues that this is part of a larger effort to distort history:
May 14, 2015
No, Russia Is Not the Historical Protector of the Jews
Pro-Russian apologists distorting history? Never.
What to Make of the Vatican’s Recognition of a Palestinian State?
A sign of the times, but not a huge change in the global status quo.
Why Read Sholem Aleichem?
Yesterday was the 99th anniversary of his death.
Rethinking Christian Zionism
Christian scholars want to move beyond the end of the world.