Don’t Make Excuses for Mahmoud Abbas’s Rantings
Donald Trump didn’t drive the Palestinian president to anti-Semitism.
January 18, 2018
Two Very Different Stories of Modern Jewish History
Going out vs. looking in.
Simon Schama, author of The Story of the Jews, Volume Two: Belonging, 1492-1900, is a distinguished historian of modern Europe who, although Jewish himself, had written little about the Jews until producing the first volume of this work. By contrast, Shmuel Feiner, author of Et Ḥadashah (“A New Age”)—the first of two projected volumes on 18th-century European Jewry—is a leading expert on the Jewish intellectual history of this period. Finding both books impressive in different ways, Allan Arkush compares them in his review:
January 18, 2018
Fecal Insults to Countries Are Objectionable—Unless the Country Is Israel
Of s—holes and sh—y little countries.
Only a Comprehensive Strategy of Pushback and Deterrence Can Curb Iran’s Ambitions
This includes unreservedly backing Israel against Hizballah.
Two Very Different Stories of Modern Jewish History
Going out vs. looking in.
How a Shellfish-Heavy Feast Helped Create Conservative Judaism in America
Setting the record straight on the “treyfa-banquet.”