Why Donald Trump Won’t Be Able to Close the World’s Biggest Deal
Mahmoud Abbas, the stubborn holdout.
May 11, 2017
Ukraine Finally Comes to Terms with Babi Yar
At last, a monument will stand over Babi Yar.
When the late poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko visited the notorious ravine near Kiev in 1961, he was shocked to find no monument to the 34,000 Jews who were murdered there in September 1941. The absence of any sign of commemoration—which gave Yevtushenko’s poem “Babi Yar” its opening line—was not the result of neglect but of a deliberate Soviet policy of covering up the Holocaust and suppressing any recognition that the Nazis specifically targeted Jews. After gaining independence, Ukraine did little to alter Soviet policies toward Holocaust commemoration, but now, writes Norman Naimark, change is finally coming:
May 11, 2017
A Bitter Date for Iran’s Baha’i
No mercy for the country’s largest non-Muslim minority.
For Turkish Jewry, the End Might Be in Sight
The canary in the coal mine?
Ukraine Finally Comes to Terms with Babi Yar
At last, a monument will stand over Babi Yar.
The Jews of the Australian Military
The heroic Jewish general at Gallipoli, the battle of Beersheva, and a tradition of tolerance.