Making Excuses for Anti-Semitic Cartoons at Stanford
Eli Valley comes to Silicon Valley.
May 9, 2019
The Lone Tank Brigade That Saved the Golan Heights from the Syrian Onslaught during the Yom Kippur War
How Amos Ben-Gal held the line.
When Syrian and Egyptian forces launched simultaneous attacks on Israel on Yom Kippur of 1973, the IDF found itself woefully unprepared. The high command, just ten days before the war began, finally acted on repeated warnings of imminent war and ordered Colonel Avigdor Ben-Gal to move his tank brigade from the Sinai to the Golan Heights; the last units were still arriving when the fighting began. Even with Ben-Gal’s tanks, Israel had a single, understrength division on the Golan, which faced an onslaught from three battle-ready Syrian armored divisions. Abraham Rabinovich tells the story of how Ben-Gal’s troops held the line:
May 9, 2019
The Lone Tank Brigade That Saved the Golan Heights from the Syrian Onslaught during the Yom Kippur War
How Amos Ben-Gal held the line.
Once Again, Israel Goes Far to Prevent Civilian Casualties—and Is Nonetheless Condemned
Nations’ right to self-defense is not abrogated when an opponent fights dirty.
The “Scientific” Ideas That Closed America’s Doors to Jewish Immigrants
A new book on eugenics and the 1924 Immigration Act.
The Rabbi, Beer-Brewer, and Price Regulator Who Brought 3rd-Century Talmudic Scholarship to Babylonia
Abba the Tall, known simply as Rav.