Iran’s Four-Decade Strategy to Envelope Israel in Terror
Tehran’s hand in the first and second intifadas.
June 2, 2023
World War I and the Origins of Israel’s Most Famous Song
A joyous tune for a baleful year.
By April 1918—as the final year of the First World War ground on—Jerusalemites had, in the words of Lenny Ben-David, suffered “starvation, locust plagues, and diseases spread by Ottoman soldiers, such as cholera, typhoid, [and] malaria.” Yet that baleful year was also one of joy because of the British liberation of Jerusalem from Ottoman rule, and the promise of the November 1917 Balfour Declaration. That joy inspired one Jew, as Ben-David writes:
June 2, 2023
Finding the Key to Israeli Happiness
Neighborliness, a lack of resentment, and a sense of perspective.
How Orthodox Jews Became Coronavirus Scapegoats
To governors, doctors, and journalists.
World War I and the Origins of Israel’s Most Famous Song
A joyous tune for a baleful year.
What Talmudic Manuscripts Tell Us
The texts we take for granted are the work of countless scribes about whom we know little but their handwriting.