Iran Returns to Gaza
A counterpoint to the reconciliation deal.
October 26, 2017
Why Did Jews Support the Bolsheviks?
Only the Red Army tried to prevent pogroms.
Before the 1917 Russian Revolution, writes Michael Stanislawski, the Bolshevik party was actually one of the least popular among Jews—garnering significantly less support than even other socialist parties. Although many of the leading Bolsheviks at the time were themselves Jewish, these were “Jews who viewed their Jewishness as an incidental artifact of their birth, with no meaning for them either religiously” or ethnically. But after the revolution, things changed rapidly:
October 26, 2017
In Greece, Public Opinion on Israel May Be Following Diplomacy and Economics
Anti-Semitism seems to be diminishing.
Why Did Jews Support the Bolsheviks?
Only the Red Army tried to prevent pogroms.
Don’t Send the Iraqi Jewish Archive Back to Iraq
Tantamount to returning stolen treasure to a thief.
The Orthodoxies of the University Are Far More Dogmatic Than Those of the Faithful
Secular faiths on campus demand certainty about questions that are too complex and too broad for certainty to be possible.