UNRWA’s Shameful System of Apartheid
And how a financial “crisis” might end it.
April 2, 2018
The Rome of Josephus
In the footsteps of a Jewish traitor-turned-historian.
In the midst of the Judean Revolt of 66-70 CE, the Jewish rebel officer Josephus, his unit defeated, defected to the Roman forces; eventually the emperor Vespasian and his son and successor Titus became Josephus’ patrons, and he went on to have an illustrious career writing about Jewish history and defending Jews and Judaism against their slanderers. He came to the city of Rome in 71 CE, and most likely lived there until his death around the year 100. David Laskin reports on traveling through Rome with the works of Josephus as his guide. Here he imagines the imperial parade—memorialized in the Arch of Titus—during which the emperor celebrated the Jews’ defeat and the destruction of their Temple:
April 2, 2018
Since Jeremy Corbyn Doesn’t Even Believe Anti-Semitism Exists, His Disavowals of It Mean Nothing
It must be the image in his head of the Jew as bloodsucker.
How the Jews’ Most Incisive Critic Became Their Greatest Defender—While Founding Modern Yiddish Literature
Mendele Mokher Seforim’s The Mare.
The Rome of Josephus
In the footsteps of a Jewish traitor-turned-historian.