August 22, 2023
Saving the Last Synagogue in Mosul
Iraq’s latest anti-Semitic legislation makes restoration efforts all but impossible.
A century ago, the Iraqi city of Mosul—which encompasses the site of the biblical Nineveh—was home to Kurds, Arabs, and Turks and Sunni Muslims, Christians, Yazidis, and Jews. But the anti-Semitism of the mid-20th century and the more recent depredations of Islamic State have changed that. No Jews remain, although other religious minorities do—along with a historic synagogue. Rebecca Anne Proctor relates efforts to preserve it:
August 22, 2023
Iran’s Dangerous Charm Offensive
U.S. involvement, and Saudi-Israeli rapprochement, could defeat it.
Legal Euthanasia Encourages People to Give in to Despair
The cruelty of Canada’s MAID laws.
Saving the Last Synagogue in Mosul
Iraq’s latest anti-Semitic legislation makes restoration efforts all but impossible.
How a False (and Anti-Semitic) Accusation of Patricide Almost Derailed the Career of a Great Photographer
Philippe Halsman, Austrian Dreyfus.