Reforming the Palestinian Authority Will Take a Lot More Than a New Prime Minister
Making sense of Mohammad Shtayyeh’s resignation.
February 28, 2024
What Jews Mean to America
Philo-Semitism, anti-Semitism, and the “almost chosen people.”
Taking a long view of Jewish history, Meir Soloveichik observes that there is nothing especially surprising about the surge of anti-Semitism in the U.S. since October 7. What is surprising, he writes, are the “stalwart, public defenses of Jews” from public figures. Soloveichik believes such attitudes have deep roots in the American founding, and are summed up in Abraham Lincoln’s description of Americans as God’s “almost chosen people,” by which he meant that
February 28, 2024
The “New York Times” Finds New Ways to Distort the History of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
Six professors, but only two opinions.
What Jews Mean to America
Philo-Semitism, anti-Semitism, and the “almost chosen people.”
Proving God’s Existence, the Jewish Way
Do philosophers draw on biblical and rabbinic antecedents?
How a Fake Jewish Countess Saved Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
Janina Spinner Mehlberg.