The UN’s Lebanon Charade Continues
An international force cowed by Hizballah can’t keep the terrorist group in line.
August 19, 2021
Thirty Years after the Crown Heights Pogrom, Jews Are Safer—but Not Safe
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the riots that broke out in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn after a yeshiva student got into a car accident that left one seven-year-old boy dead and another badly injured. Local African Americans responded by attacking the Lubavitch Ḥasidim with whom they share the neighborhood—along with police trying to restore order—and destroying Jewish property. Egging on the violence was the anti-Semitic preacher Al Sharpton, who remains a prominent figure in American public life. Rioters fatally stabbed Yankel Rosenblum and injured 38 civilians and 152 police officers. Ed Kosner recalls:
August 19, 2021
When Jews’ Historic Virtues Become Pathologies
Jews, power, and jokes.
Thirty Years after the Crown Heights Pogrom, Jews Are Safer—but Not Safe
When Cyprus Became a Prison for Holocaust Survivors
An experience that will be at the center of the island’s new Jewish museum.
A High-Tech Analysis of Ancient Jars Shows a Judean Cultural Shift
Between the Assyrian conquest and the Babylonian.