What Israel Can Learn from the War in Ukraine
Preparing for a new era of drone warfare.
March 9, 2023
To Fight Anti-Semitic Violence in France, It’s Necessary to Identify Its Islamist Roots
How not to remember the murder of Ilan Halimi.
Seventeen years ago, a Parisian gang calling itself “the Barbarians” lured a twenty-three-year-old cell-phone salesman named Ilan Halimi onto its turf, tortured him for three weeks while reciting Quranic verses, and then left him to die by the roadside. Halimi’s murder is often seen as the beginning of the current era of anti-Semitic violence in France. Eleanor Krasne comments on the repeated failure of the French government, and even of Jewish leaders, to confront the sources of such violence:
March 9, 2023
China’s War on Religion
To Beijing, any belief in a higher authority is a threat.
To Fight Anti-Semitic Violence in France, It’s Necessary to Identify Its Islamist Roots
How not to remember the murder of Ilan Halimi.
Isaac Babel’s Boyish Shame and Adult Pride in His Raucous Jewish Family
A new translation of “In the Basement.”
The Jewish Queen Who Tried to Stop the Revolt That Led to the Second Temple’s Destruction
Berenice beyond her many marriages.