Israel’s Dilemma on Its Northern Border
Yellow tents on the Blue Line.
July 17, 2023
A Holocaust Memoir Unlike Any Other
The Last Consolation Vanished.
Upon his arrival in Auschwitz in 1942, the Nazis assigned Zalmen Gradowski to the Sonderkommando (special force), whose task was to direct fellow prisoners to the gas chambers and then to remove and dispose of their corpses. Gradowski kept a Yiddish-language diary, which he carefully hid and which has recently been published in English translation. In her review, Dara Horn compares Gradowski to Shimon bar Kokhba, who led a failed revolt against the Roman occupation of Judea in 135 CE:
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Chinese Overseas Police Stations Exert Influence in the Middle East
At least one is located in Israel.
A Holocaust Memoir Unlike Any Other
The Last Consolation Vanished.
The Paradoxical Politics of the Hebrew Bible
Lessons without simplistic messages.
Robert Malley and the Anti-American Establishment
The ideology of America’s erstwhile Iran envoy.