In Yemen, Iran Is Preparing for Its Next War with Israel
And it’s winning.
September 20, 2021
The Holocaust Survivor Who Foresaw the Dangers of Left-Wing Anti-Zionism
Jean Améry and the “old-new anti-Semitism.”
Born in Austria to a Catholic mother and a Jewish father, Hans Maier—better known as Jean Améry—was captured by the Nazis in Belgium and sent to Auschwitz. After World War II, he authored influential works on his own experiences and on the Holocaust in general, which, writes Alvin Rosenfeld, “are distinguished by a rare degree of intellectual vigor and moral courage” that put him on par with Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel. He also became one of the first prominent leftists to see the dangers of the European left’s anti-Zionist turn. Rosenfeld writes:
September 20, 2021
The Holocaust Survivor Who Foresaw the Dangers of Left-Wing Anti-Zionism
Jean Améry and the “old-new anti-Semitism.”
The History of the Etrog in America
Thomas Jefferson, Jamaica, California, and the citron-candy crazy.
After the Depredations of Islamic State, an Unlikely Alliance Restored the Tomb of the Prophet Nahum
Nineveh was destroyed again, but this monument still stands.
Why the Pope Was Wrong about Jewish Law
What good are profound values if we don’t know how to put them into action?