Rasmea Odeh, Favorite Terrorist of the Hard Left
Now, at last, she’s being expelled from the U.S.
April 5, 2017
The Midwestern Rabbi’s Daughter Who Sounded the Alarm about Hitler
How a society lady and disappointed actress became a pioneering female diplomat.
Born in 1874 (or thereabouts), Emma Messing grew up in Indianapolis, where her father was the rabbi of a prominent Reform synagogue and a highly regarded figure in Jewish and Gentile circles. Messing, whose doings were noted in the society pages from her youth onward, started performing vaudeville with her sister at age thirty-one, had a romance with the colorful non-Jewish real-estate developer who built Miami Beach, and pursued a brief career as an actress in New York. In 1921—having realized that she would not achieve Broadway stardom—she got herself a job with the State Department as an aide at the embassy in Berlin. Mark Lasswell writes:
April 5, 2017
How the Six-Day War Changed Israel and the Jews
“A kind of religious ecstasy.”
American Power and the Long War against Islamist Terror
The big stick.
The Literary Piety of S.Y. Agnon
A kinship between the artist and the outlaw.
The Midwestern Rabbi’s Daughter Who Sounded the Alarm about Hitler
How a society lady and disappointed actress became a pioneering female diplomat.