An End to the Islamic Republic Should Be America’s Goal
Iran has been at war with us for 40 years.
July 1, 2019
What’s Wrong with David Brooks’s Pronouncement That “We Are All Jews”
A new version of an old shortcut.
“In a world of radical pluralism,” proclaimed David Brooks in a recent New York Times column, “we are all Jews”—in the sense that all Americans are now members of “creative minorities” in a society that no longer has a single dominant culture. Ira Stoll points to the troubling pedigree of such statements, which can be traced back to Paul’s statement in Galatians 3:19 that, “If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” As the scholar Jon Levenson explains in his book Inheriting Abraham:
July 1, 2019
Jared Kushner’s Peace Proposal Would End the Palestinian Refugee Problem
Unlike in 1959, Saudi Arabia doesn’t seem to object.
Refusing to Pander to the Bolsheviks, a Great Soviet Jewish Writer Still Hoped for a Better Soviet Jewish Future
Pinḥas Kahanovitsh, the Concealed One.
What’s Wrong with David Brooks’s Pronouncement That “We Are All Jews”
A new version of an old shortcut.
The Adventures of a Mossad “Associate”
Breaking into Assad’s toilet and establishing diplomatic relations with China.