The F-35 Tempest in a Teapot
What’s the current fuss about?
August 28, 2020
Once-Secret Documents Reveal the Vatican’s Role in Keeping Child Holocaust Survivors from Their Family
While complaining of Jewish ingratitude.
In February 1944, a German Jewish couple living in southern France left their two young boys in a nursery, telling only a single Gentile friend about their whereabouts and identity. The parents died at Auschwitz, but when relatives returned after the war to look for the children, the nursery’s director—who had baptized them—refused to hand them over. Soon a national controversy, resembling the 19th-century case of Edgardo Mortara, erupted, as local clergy helped hide their two young charges to ensure that they be raised as Catholics. David Kertzer writes:
August 28, 2020
How Black September Helped to Cement the U.S.-Israel Alliance
When Jordan needed help against the PLO, the Jewish state was there.
At the UN, Europe Sided with Iran against the United States
Tyrants the world over rejoice.
Once-Secret Documents Reveal the Vatican’s Role in Keeping Child Holocaust Survivors from Their Family
While complaining of Jewish ingratitude.
An Egyptologist’s Case for the Historicity of the Exodus
And for why it matters.