In Nuclear Talks, Iran Has Won the First Round
It’s already gotten important concessions from the U.S.
April 15, 2025
A Military Seder on the Eve of the Liberation of Dachau
The story of Hilbert and Howard Margol.
Eighty years ago, American Jewish twin brothers, Hilbert and Howard Margol, had a face-to-face confrontation with precisely this sort of evil when they and their fellow members of the 42nd Infantry Division liberated the Dachau concentration camp. A few weeks beforehand, the division entered Germany, and the Margol brothers participated in an unusual seder—with the Haggadah’s apt reminder that, “In every generation there are those who stand against us [Jews] to eliminate us.”
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Dostoevsky’s Explanation of Hamas’s Sadistic, Infanticidal, Frenzy
Ivan Karamazov in Gaza.
A Military Seder on the Eve of the Liberation of Dachau
The story of Hilbert and Howard Margol.
The Clash of Ideas Underlying Israel’s Internal Strife
Elected leaders vs. state institutions.
Repentance, Rabbinic Courts, and Earl Warren
The Talmud lecture that contributed to the Miranda ruling.