2017: Israel’s Year of Diplomatic Triumph
Annus mirabilis.
January 29, 2018
Saudi Arabia Acknowledges the Holocaust
An unexpected letter from a country that once exported anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.
In 2016, Mohammed al-Issa was appointed head of Saudi Arabia’s Muslim World League (MWL), the state-run organization that, for decades, has been the world’s major exporter of the most extreme, intolerant, and anti-Semitic form of Islam. Issa’s mandate, in keeping with the country’s overall reformist turn, seems to involve transforming the MWL into something else entirely. Robert Satloff, who has spearheaded efforts to bring awareness of the Shoah to the Muslim world, hails Issa’s surprise decision not only to visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington but also to follow up with an open letter to the museum’s director:
January 29, 2018
Saudi Arabia Acknowledges the Holocaust
An unexpected letter from a country that once exported anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.
The Recent Bombings in Sweden Highlight Europe’s Immigration Crisis
Malmo has become the Scandinavian Mogadishu.
The Danger and Opportunity of Jewish-Christian Dialogue
How not to have a conversation between faiths.
A Zany Israeli Television Drama Explores the World of Hip, Mizraḥi Yeshiva Students
Shababnikim.