As America Refocuses on Its Foreign-Policy Priorities, the End of the “Peace Process” May Have Finally Arrived
The least relevant deal of all.
October 2, 2019
The Story of Cyrus the Great, Invoked by Harry Truman, Is a Cautionary as Well as a Hopeful Tale
The first movement against the Jewish right to Jerusalem.
Speaking to a Jewish group after the end of his presidency, Harry Truman famously declared “I am Cyrus!”—referring to the Persian emperor who in the 6th century BCE permitted Jewish exiles to return to the Land of Israel to rebuild the Temple. Meir Soloveichik examines this invocation of “the most celebrated non-Jew in the Hebrew Bible” by a president himself deeply familiar with Scripture, and its lesson for the future of U.S.-Israel relations:
October 2, 2019
The Story of Cyrus the Great, Invoked by Harry Truman, Is a Cautionary as Well as a Hopeful Tale
The first movement against the Jewish right to Jerusalem.
By Attacking Saudi Arabia, Iran Has Taken a Step Beyond Proxy Warfare
So long as they go unpunished, the ayatollahs will escalate.
Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Philosophy of Jewish History, Cultivated During Nazi Rule
In This Hour.
Commemorating the Australian Aborigines Who Fought to Liberate the Land of Israel from the Ottoman Empire
A daring, and successful, World War I cavalry charge.