The Lessons of Israel’s Destruction of the Syrian Nuclear Reactor
Israeli self-reliance is good. Self-reliance with American support is even better.
July 12, 2019
The Rabbi Who Followed 300 Orphans to Their Death in Nazi-Occupied Poland
The Orthodox Janusz Korczak.
Today, the story of the Jewish educator and children’s author Janusz Korczak (né Henryk Goldszmit), the founder and director of a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw before and during World War II, is well-known in Poland, especially after it was recounted in a 1990 film. Korczak, having turned down offers to escape the Warsaw Ghetto, remained with his charges and was sent along with them to Treblinka to be murdered in 1942. Far less well-known is the very similar story of Rabbi Dawid Alter Kurzmann of Krakow, but he is now getting some much-deserved recognition, Ofer Aderet writes. (Free registration may be required.)
July 12, 2019
For an Intellectual, the Centennial of a Holocaust Writer Is an Opportunity to Condemn Both Israel and Democracy
Pankaj Mishra takes on Primo Levi.
The Pilgrimage Road Excavation, Which Has Already Uncovered Much about Jerusalem’s History, Is No Threat to Arab Jerusalemites or to the al-Aqsa Mosque
Truth from the City of David.
Taking the Greatest Jewish Commentary on the Torah Seriously
Rashi, theologian.
The Rabbi Who Followed 300 Orphans to Their Death in Nazi-Occupied Poland
The Orthodox Janusz Korczak.