Iran’s Shooting Down of a Ukrainian Passenger Plane Was Worse Than Human Error
Unwitting human shields.
December 17, 2020
The Great German Jewish Poet Who Prophesied the Dangers of Christianity’s Demise
Heinrich Heine’s prediction of Nazism remains relevant today.
Born into a Jewish family in Düsseldorf in 1797, Heinrich Heine—likely the greatest German poet of the 19th century—became a Lutheran at the age of twenty-seven, but frequently expressed ambivalence about his conversion, once referring to his baptismal certificate as his “passport to Western civilization.” Yet despite his lack of enthusiasm for his new religion, he foresaw a post-Christian Germany unleashing unimaginable horrors on the world:
December 17, 2020
If the UK Labor Party Is Serious about Fighting Anti-Semitism, It Must Expel the Jews Who Encourage It
The Jewish Voice for Labor serves only to “kosherize” Jeremy Corbyn.
Saudi Arabia Is Purging Anti-Semitism from Its Textbooks
But more reform is still needed.
The Great German Jewish Poet Who Prophesied the Dangers of Christianity’s Demise
Heinrich Heine’s prediction of Nazism remains relevant today.
Lighting the Menorah under the Shadow of Saddam Hussein’s Tyranny
Footage of Hanukkah in Baghdad in the 1990s.