In Condemning the “Occupation,” Liberal Jewish Organizations Accept the Anti-Israel Position
No, American policy on the settlements won’t help BDS.
January 8, 2020
The Art and Diplomacy of the German-Jewish Elite of a Century Ago
James Simon and Paul Nathan.
Reviewing a new Berlin museum named after the industrialist, philanthropist, and art collector James Simon (1851-1932), along with a biography of his friend, the Jewish activist Paul Nathan (1857-1927), Abigail Green considers both their careers and the elite segment of Germany Jewry to which they belonged. Simon acquired a vast collection of Renaissance art and German art from all periods and brought some of the most celebrated artifacts of ancient Babylonia and Egypt to his country, turning Germany’s museums, the recipients of his benefactions, into major centers of European culture. As Green notes, the Rothschilds did something similar for France, as did Ludwig Mond, another Jewish industrialist, for Britain. This raises a relevant question:
January 8, 2020
Brooklyn’s Homegrown Counterterrorism Expert Takes on the Latest Wave of Anti-Semitic Violence
Meet Devorah Halberstam.
How the British Media Turned a Holocaust Survivor’s Name into a Byword for Shady Landlords
“Rachmanism.”
Why Ultra-Orthodox Israelis Gravitate to the Political Right
Driven less by expedience than by a commitment to Jewish particularism.
The Art and Diplomacy of the German-Jewish Elite of a Century Ago
James Simon and Paul Nathan.