Syria Forfeited Its Claims to the Golan Heights When It Used Them to Attack Israel
Recognition of Israeli sovereignty upholds the international order.
March 28, 2019
The French Legal System Tries to Blame Sarah Halimi’s Murder on Marijuana Rather Than Anti-Semitism
Radical Islam or reefer madness?
On April 4, 2017, Kobili Traore, a Mali-born Parisian, broke into the apartment of his neighbor, a sixty-five-year-old Jewish widow named Sarah Halimi, and brutally murdered her. During the attack he yelled “Allahu Akbar” and “Satan”; on previous occasions he had shouted anti-Semitic slurs at Halimi and her relatives. A French court is now evaluating a psychiatric report—commissioned by the investigating judge in the case—according to which Traore was so intoxicated from cannabis that he can’t be held criminally responsible. Ben Cohen comments:
March 28, 2019
The Israeli Response to Recent Rocket Attacks Marks a Strategic Shift
No longer playing by Hamas’s rules.
The French Legal System Tries to Blame Sarah Halimi’s Murder on Marijuana Rather Than Anti-Semitism
Radical Islam or reefer madness?
A Hasmonean-Era Village Discovered in Jerusalem
Evidence of one of the city’s golden ages.
A Poet’s Lament for Poland’s Lost Shtetls
Post-Holocaust towns populated by biblical ghosts.