By Speeding Up Its Efforts to Build Nuclear Weapons, Iran Tries to Extort Concessions from the U.S.
The ayatollahs’ most egregious violation of the 2015 nuclear deal.
January 8, 2021
A Great Jewish Sage on the Dangers of Political Violence
The rebbe and the riots.
In 1968, several years of increasing political violence and unrest, coupled by rising crime and disorder, seemed to come to a climax: first with the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., then with the nationwide riots afterward, followed by the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, and thereafter by the violent protests at the Democratic National Convention. There were also repercussions for Jews: as Dovid Margolin notes, “in a three-month period beginning in September 1968, ten synagogues and Jewish schools were vandalized, set on fire, or even firebombed in New York City” alone. On December 10, Menachem M. Schneerson, the then-rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch Ḥasidim, delivered a lengthy sermon touching on the dangers of the moment, which Margolin summarizes:
January 8, 2021
Hamas’s Show of Force in Gaza
One message to Israel, and another to the Palestinians.
Why Attempts to Renew American Civic Education Are Likely to Backfire
Religious schools would not be spared.
A Great Jewish Sage on the Dangers of Political Violence
The rebbe and the riots.
The Dangers of John le Carré’s Moral Sophistication
Anti-Semite or philo-Semite? The master spy novelist’s final mystery.
