What Europeans Don’t Understand about Anti-Semitism
Jews feel safer in Orban’s Hungary than in Macron’s France.
January 29, 2019
The Portuguese Diplomat Who Saved Thousands of Jews from the Nazis
Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
After World War II began, Portugal ordered its embassies and consulates not to issue visas to people “of undetermined, contested, or disputed nationality,” and especially not to stateless Jews. But Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese consul-general in the French city of Bordeaux, simply refused to follow these orders, as Richard Hurowitz writes:
January 29, 2019
Israel Is Right to Take Responsibility for Its Attacks in Syria
Clear red lines are better than the pretense of ambiguity.
New York, New Jersey, and California Should Increase Their Protections for Religious Freedom
Jews would benefit from state versions of the RFRA.
The Portuguese Diplomat Who Saved Thousands of Jews from the Nazis
Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
In Putting Ultra-Orthodox Jews on Screen, Comedy Works Better Than Tragedy
Explaining the success of Shtisel.