Assad’s Victory and Hamas’s New Tactics Have Changed Israel’s Strategic Reality
Under these circumstances, withdrawing from the West Bank would be more dangerous than ever.
December 26, 2018
Two Historians Reconsider the Question of Jews, Money, and Modernity
From Karl Marx to the early Zionists.
In Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought, Chad Alan Goldberg considers the ways thinkers like Karl Marx, Werner Sombart, and Max Weber tended to consider Jews either avatars of modernity or emblems of stubborn backwardness—but rarely in a positive light. Generally such ideas focused on the relationship between Jews and capitalism. Jonathan Karp sums up Goldberg’s argument in his review:
December 26, 2018
Anti-Semitic Economics Could Drive Turkey into a Financial Crisis
Raising interest rates can combat inflation, but to Erdogan such a move would let “the Jews” win.
A New York Suburb Uses Zoning to Keep Jews Out
Welcome to Airmont, no synagogues allowed.
DNA Suggests Widespread Jewish Ancestry among Latin Americans
Descendants of conversos, scattered among the nations.
Two Historians Reconsider the Question of Jews, Money, and Modernity
From Karl Marx to the early Zionists.