What Iran is Learning from Russia’s Missile Strategy
The Islamic Republic is watching closely.
May 25, 2022
The “Anti-Semitism Tax” on Synagogues
In recent years, synagogues across the country have increased funding for security measures, as Howard Husock explains, to “prevent tragedies like the deadly attack on Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 or the hostage-taking at Congregation Beth Israel” in Texas earlier this year. Congregations must make difficult decision about such measures: safety enhancements can make synagogues seem less welcoming, and each dollar spent on security detracts from educational programming, renovations, and so forth. Husock sketches these and other pressures facing American synagogues:
May 25, 2022
How Should Christians Define Anti-Semitism?
Major evangelical groups disagree over the IHRA’s working definition.
The “Anti-Semitism Tax” on Synagogues
The Strange Correspondence between Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot—and Their Even Stranger Dinner
Groucho called the anti-Semitic expatriate a “British poet from St. Louis.”
The Rediscovered Jews of Xueta Island
A new documentary sheds light on an ancient Jewish community in the Mediterranean.