Electoral Reform Has Given Israeli Extremists a Shot at the Knesset
Raising the electoral threshold paved the way for Otzma.
March 20, 2019
Setting the Record Straight about Orthodox Rabbis’ Appeal to Hitler
And accusations that they tolerate “white nationalism.”
In 1928, the Polish branch of Agudath Israel—the leading Orthodox organization at the time—aligned itself with the ex-socialist Jozef Pilsudski’s authoritarian and nationalist ruling coalition. Now a recent article, ignoring the fact that the Pilsudski regime kept the ferocious anti-Semites of the major opposition party out of power, has drawn a parallel between this decision by Agudath Israel and a letter sent to Adolf Hitler by German Orthodox rabbis in 1933, and sees in both a parallel to current Orthodox support for Donald Trump and an alleged Orthodox tolerance for “white nationalism.” Moshe Grussgott refutes this argument:
March 20, 2019
Hamas’s Brutal Oppression and the Hypocrisy of International Opinion
It’s Hamas, not Israel, that’s firing on peaceful protestors.
The Strange Alliance between Progressives and Islamists
Some embrace it sincerely, others with duplicity.
Setting the Record Straight about Orthodox Rabbis’ Appeal to Hitler
And accusations that they tolerate “white nationalism.”
The 700-Year History of the Purim Parody
The Tractate of Drunkards.