The Possible Death of Mohammad Deif, and What It Means
Terrorist groups are more than the sum of their leaders.
July 16, 2024
The Man Who Foresaw the Rise of German Anti-Semitism
And how he became a reluctant Zionist.
In his book Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family, Daniel Finkelstein tells the story of how both his mother’s and father’s family survived the vicissitudes of World War II as European Jews. Among them is Finkelstein’s maternal grandfather, a German-Jewish scholar born in Potsdam in 1885 named Alfred Wiener. Allan Arkush writes in his review:
July 16, 2024
To Conscript Haredim, the IDF Will Have to Make Some Compromises
But the enlistees will have to make bigger ones.
The Man Who Foresaw the Rise of German Anti-Semitism
And how he became a reluctant Zionist.
How an Orthodox Leader’s Postcard Became a Symbol of Jewish Women’s Education
Is that a kaftan or a kimono?
Rabbis against the Theater
And ancient Judaism’s greatest playwright.