Dr. Ephraim Sneh: “The Israeli government will continue our policy of liquidating those who plan or carry out attacks, and no one can give us lessons in morality because we have, unfortunately, 100 years of fighting terrorism. If anyone has committed or is planning to carry out terrorist attacks, he has to be hit. It is effective, precise, and just.”
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After So Much Pain and Anguish: First Letters after Liberation, an anthology of letters which was published in Yad Vashem keeps their memories alive.
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The Abraham Accords, the term given to the series of agreements reached last summer allowing normal relations between Israel and several of her Arab-Muslim neighbors, including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and now Morocco, were greeted with optimism and approval by the Trump administration.
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The question raised by Mr. Pompeo’s anti-BDS policy is the determination of when criticism of Israel devolves into antisemitism. At what point does condemnation of Israel cross that redline?
read moreFrom the outset of the pandemic’s appearance in the Jewish state, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky stressed that everyone should heed the guidelines of Israel’s doctors and the Ministry of Health.
read moreJack Fairweather, a former war reporter for The Washington Post and The Daily Telegraph, has written a fascinating account about Witold Pilecki, a 39-year-old gentleman Polish farmer in Eastern Poland who became a national hero. His efforts included alerting the West about Nazi crimes being committed at Auschwitz and attempting to establish an underground army to destroy the camp.
read moreAs a Democrat, Dershowitz argues that the recent shift away from bipartisan support for Israel in the US presents a genuine danger for the Jewish state. He knows support for Israel among “progressives” and young Democrats, in particular, is declining.
read moreMeir Y. Soloveichik, Matthew Holbreich, Jonathan Silver, and Stuart W. Halpern, the editors of Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land: The Hebrew Bible in the United States: A Sourcebook (The Toby Press), recognize that a proper understanding of the United States—its culture, institutions, and concepts of freedom, liberty, and balance of powers—demands an examination of the Hebrew Bible, the source book that influenced the leaders who helped shape American life.
read moreTrivializing the Holocaust for political and propaganda purposes
read moreMonty Noam Penkower provides an in-depth analysis of the conditions surrounding the establishment of the state of Israel.
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Dan Rabinowitz, founder and editor-in-chief of the Seforim Blog (seforim.blogspot.com), a website dedicated to the study of Hebrew books, has written a fascinating work about Vilna’s Strashun Library, bringing to light this institution which serviced a wide diversity of Jewish men and women and changed the nature of what a public library’s function could be.
read moreThe Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, an act of Jewish resistance in German-occupied Poland undertaken to oppose the Nazis’ final effort began April 19, 1943
read moreIsraeli young people learn their country’s history and the dangers of ceding land to Palestinian groups
read moreHistorical examples of anti-Semitic strain hatred, and the libels inciting hatred and violence
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