Don’t Let Hamas Have a Say in Gaza’s Postwar Government
Political power is as important as disarmament.
November 7, 2025
The Heroic Japanese Hebraist Who Saved Jews from the Nazis and Then Embraced Judaism
Remembering Setsuzo Kotsuji.
During World War II, thousands of Jewish refugees found themselves in Kobe, Japan, thanks in large part to the extraordinary efforts of a Japanese diplomate name Chiune Sugihara. But it was thanks to Setsuzo Kotsuji, a descendent of Shinto priests who had become a scholar of Hebrew, that Japan gave continued safe haven to these Jews and refused to turn them over to its Nazi ally. Rabbi Meir Soloveichik writes:
November 7, 2025
A Victory for American Allies in Western Sahara
The alternative: a new failed state under the non-democratic rule of an Iran-backed militia.
Anti-Israel Candidates Lose in Minneapolis and (Probably) Seattle
Zohran Mamdani’s success isn’t the whole story.
The Heroic Japanese Hebraist Who Saved Jews from the Nazis and Then Embraced Judaism
Remembering Setsuzo Kotsuji.
A Byzantine-Era Synagogue Discovered in the Golan Heights
An archaeological puzzle solved.