A New American Peace Proposal Could Be Very Bad for Israel
At stake: Israel’s security and sovereign existence.
June 23, 2017
A Hidden Archive and the Marriage That Led to the Ouster of an Ultra-Orthodox Leader
Amram Blau and his proselyte widow.
After 1948, although most ultra-Orthodox leaders reached some accommodation with the newfound Jewish state, Neturei Karta, the most extreme anti-Zionist group, persisted in its complete rejection of Israel. This movement was rocked by scandal in 1965 when its longtime leader Amram Blau married Ruth Ben-David, a French convert to Judaism nearly 26 years his junior—despite a rabbinical court’s order not to proceed. When he defied the court, his followers turned against him; his movement fractured and went into decline. As Yair Ettinger writes, Blau’s newly opened personal archive reveals much about this unlikely union:
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Jewish Organizations Talk about Human Rights, but Are Silent When a Jew Is Murdered by a Tyrannical Regime
The case of Otto Warmbier.
Islamic State May Collapse in Syria. Now the U.S. Must Prevent Its Replacement by the Islamic Republic
Iran sent a message with a ballistic missile.
Joseph Brodsky: Poet, Dissident, Jew
The poet among us.
A Hidden Archive and the Marriage That Led to the Ouster of an Ultra-Orthodox Leader
Amram Blau and his proselyte widow.