The Movement to Return Jewish Worship to the Temple Mount Has Gone Mainstream
One brief and brilliant moment, and a kaddish.
September 25, 2017
Why Israel Went Out on a Limb to Support Kurdish Independence
A shared vision and a shared history.
Today the people of Iraqi Kurdistan will go to the polls to vote on whether to declare independence from Iraq. Last week, breaking ranks with the U.S., other Middle Eastern leaders, and much of the world, Benjamin Netanyahu publicly announced his support for such a move. In doing so, he not only expressed sympathy with the Kurds’ aspiration to create what their opponents have derisively termed a second Israel—a non-Arab, democratic oasis in the midst of the Middle East—but also affirmed the longstanding ties between Israel and Iraqi Kurds, not to mention a sense of kinship between the Jewish and Kurdish peoples. David Halbfinger writes:
September 25, 2017
Why Israel Went Out on a Limb to Support Kurdish Independence
A shared vision and a shared history.
Valerie Plame’s Circulation of an Anti-Semitic Article Was Deliberate
The growing tolerance for anti-Semitism on the far left and the far right.
American Jewish Fiction Has a New Favorite Theme: the Jewish State
Distant cousins.
The Lost Books of a Polish Yeshiva and Their Mysterious Fate
The Hitler Youth’s newspaper said they were burned. But it was lying.