The War against the Jews Comes to Washington
Anti-Israel rhetoric turns into action.
May 27, 2025
The Jew Who Expanded Jerusalem beyond the City Walls
Joseph Rivlin, and his brave and heroic wife.
Yesterday was also Jerusalem Day, the anniversary of the city’s unification in 1967, and I’d thus like to conclude with a bit of Jerusalem’s rich history. Until the 1860s, the city’s Jews lived only within the walls of the Old City, feeling that the surrounding hills were unsafe. That changed in the 1860s—before Leon Pinsker wrote Autoemancipation or Theodor Herzl convened the First Zionist Congress—with a Jerusalemite named Joseph Rivlin, whose great-grandfather had settled in the Land of Israel in 1809. (Joseph was an ancestor of the former Israeli president Reuven Rivlin.) Mitchell First describes the project, which created what is now known as west Jerusalem:
May 27, 2025
How the American Left Descended into Anti-Semitic Murder
A wide swath of progressives would never kill in cold blood, but sympathize with the shooter’s motives.
Lebanon Has a Chance to Disarm the Palestinian Militias within Its Borders
Its leaders are using rhetoric that got their predecessors killed.
Remembering a Jewish Soldier Who Gave His Life to Save a Friend While Fighting the Nazis
Frank Kurzinger, of blessed memory.
The Jew Who Expanded Jerusalem beyond the City Walls
Joseph Rivlin, and his brave and heroic wife.