Better to Undermine Iran’s Nuclear Program Than to Conclude Another Bad Deal
The lesson of recent explosions.
July 14, 2020
Turning the Hagia Sofia into a Mosque Is Both Wrong and Imprudent—and It Should Worry Israel
“The resurrection of Aya Sofia heralds the liberation of the al-Aqsa Mosque.”
Built in the 6th century in what was then Constantinople, the Saint Sophia cathedral was one of the Christian world’s most important places of worship until the city fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The new rulers converted the building into a mosque, and so it remained until 1935 when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, attempting to create a new secular Turkish nationalism, turned it into a museum. Now Turkey’s current president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has decided into make it a mosque once more, to the pain of many Christians. Daniel Johnson comments:
July 14, 2020
Remembering the Great African American Leaders Who Were Also Zionists
Rosa Parks, Bayard Rustin, and the “opiate of the Arabs.”
Turning the Hagia Sofia into a Mosque Is Both Wrong and Imprudent—and It Should Worry Israel
“The resurrection of Aya Sofia heralds the liberation of the al-Aqsa Mosque.”
The Supreme Court Delivers Another Victory for the Founders’ Vision of Religious Liberty
Government entities in the U.S. still threaten to impose their orthodoxy on dissenters.
After Arriving at the Sea of Galilee, a Group of Early Hasidim Encountered Plague
Past and present fused uncannily in the rabbis’ thoughts.