Whenever Israel’s Enemies Get Nuclear Technology, North Korea Has Usually Been Involved
It has also coordinated terrorist attacks.
September 11, 2019
A Rabbi’s Quest to Return Jewish Children to Their People after the Holocaust
Yitzḥak Halevi Herzog and the hidden children.
During World War II, an untold number of Jewish children were sheltered by Gentiles, often in orphanages and convents. In 1946, Yitzḥak Halevi Herzog—a Polish-born rabbi who grew up in England and France and served as the chief rabbi of Ireland before leaving for the Land of Israel—traveled to Europe on a quest to find these children, whose caretakers and adoptive parents weren’t always ready to give them up. Herzog, who would later become Israel’s first Ashkenazi chief rabbi, returned to the British-ruled Palestine six months later with 500 children in tow. Shai Ben-Ari writes:
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In Her New Book on Anti-Semitism, Bari Weiss Bravely States the Obvious
Even as she insists on clinging to a bankrupt progressivism and “the Judaism of Sunday school.”
Arab Resentment of the Palestinians Comes Out into the Open
“We want to march forward; you can continue to march backward for as long as you wish.”
Has Modern Orthodoxy Finally Gotten the Prayer Book It Needs?
A rich and eclectic commentary combined with a Zionist outlook.
A Rabbi’s Quest to Return Jewish Children to Their People after the Holocaust
Yitzḥak Halevi Herzog and the hidden children.