The Sinister Attacks on Israeli Offers of Aid to Lebanon
It would make more sense to criticize countries that don’t send humanitarian aid than to judge Israel’s aid as not sincere enough.
August 10, 2020
What African American Politics Illuminates about Jewish American Politics
A key component of both groups’ identities.
Since the middle of the last century, blacks in the U.S. have been consistently loyal in their support of the Democratic party—loyalty that, as the recent study Steadfast Democrats shows—cuts across economic, religious, and even political divides. Michael Weingrad notes that many of the book’s observations can be applied to the political lives of American Jews:
August 10, 2020
What African American Politics Illuminates about Jewish American Politics
A key component of both groups’ identities.
The Sage Who Brought the Talmud to the Masses
Adin Steinsaltz, in memoriam.
The Abrupt Resignation of a Progressive Theological Seminary’s First Jewish President—Who Made the Mistake of Professing His Zionism
Is there no room for Zionists at the Graduate Theological Union?
The Many Lives, and the Just Death, of the “Butcher of Riga”
How the Mossad tracked down and killed the so-called Latvian Lindbergh.