Israel’s Current Government Aims to Imitate Benjamin Netanyahu’s Great Economic Transformation
Before the coronavirus crisis, there was the economic crisis of the second intifada.
August 10, 2021
Anti-Semitism Is a Hatred Unlike Any Other
What Yair Lapid got wrong.
In a recent speech that caused much controversy in the Israeli press, Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid equated anti-Semites with the Hutus who slaughtered Tutsis in Rwanda, “those who beat young LGBT people to death,” and other perpetrators of violent discrimination. He went on to argue that “anti-Semitism is racism, so let’s talk to all those who oppose racism. . . . Anti-Semitism is hatred of outsiders, so let’s recruit anyone who was ever an outsider and tell them—this is your fight too.” But to Ruth Wisse, anti-Semitism isn’t just a generic form of bigotry:
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Anti-Semitism Is a Hatred Unlike Any Other
What Yair Lapid got wrong.
What Christians—and Everyone Else—Can Learn from the Jewish Way of Studying the Bible
A rabbi and a pastor-turned-professor walk into a podcast . . .
Osip Mandelstam: the Soviet Jewish Poet Who Rejected Propaganda and Denunciations—and Dared to Mock Stalin
“The honorable title of Jew, of which I am proud.”
A Year after Normalization, Israel and the UAE Are Enjoying the Dividends of Peace
Over half a billion dollars in trade.