Jordan Shares Much of the Blame for Its Rocky Relations with Israel
The real reason the prime minister’s visit to the UAE was canceled.
March 15, 2021
Setting the Record Straight on Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Jews
Against a simplistic narrative.
When a longstanding conflict in the Caucasus erupted into war last year, some argued that Israel should support Azerbaijan—with which it has strong economic and security ties, and which has proved an important ally in containing Iran—against Armenia—which has in recent decades been more closely aligned with Russia and Iran. (Jerusalem, in fact, opted for a more neutral stance.) Others took this argument even further, contrasting a philo-Semitic Azerbaijan to an anti-Semitic Armenia. But such a perspective picks and chooses facts without context, and obscures long-standing Armenian ties with Judaism and the Land of Israel, argues the historian Reuven Amitai, along with several other experts:
March 15, 2021
Iran’s Target in the Middle East Isn’t Saudi Arabia, but U.S. Interests
The Biden administration’s dangerous misunderstanding.
Setting the Record Straight on Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Jews
Against a simplistic narrative.
Remembering the Man Who Bought New York Jews’ Leaven for Four Decades
John J. Brown took the job seriously.
The Revolt against Jewish Tradition Didn’t Benefit Jewish Women
The case of Pauline Wengeroff.