Iran Just Took a Strategic Step Closer to China
Why the Shanghai Cooperation Organization matters.
October 5, 2021
Remembering the Massacre at Babi Yar and the Holocaust of Bullets
“God saved me and took me out of the ghetto.”
Last week marked the 80th anniversary of the largest of several mass-shootings carried out by the Germans at Babi Yar, a ravine outside of the Ukrainian city of Kiev. There an estimated 33,771 Jews were murdered over the course of two days—likely the largest so-called Judenaktion (literally, “Jews operation”) carried out by the SS. Nazi Germany—with the help of local collaborators—carried out hundreds of such mass-shootings throughout what was then the Soviet Union during 1941 and 1942, leaving some 2.7 million dead without the aid of concentration camps or gas chambers. Izabella Tabarovsky has compiled a series of recent interviews with survivors from the USSR:
October 5, 2021
September Was a Very Bad Month for Hamas
Now Israel must take advantage of its gains.
Remembering the Massacre at Babi Yar and the Holocaust of Bullets
“God saved me and took me out of the ghetto.”
In Identity Politics, Old Religious Ideas Live on in a Post-Religious Society
“Christianity’s walking dead.”
How Jewish Was Alexander Hamilton? And How Anti-Semitic Were His Contemporaries?
A new biography musters extensive circumstantial evidence that the founding father was born a Jew.