Iran’s Recent Attack on an Israeli Vessel Has Revealed Israel’s Maritime Vulnerability
One of Tehran’s many attempts at nautical terror succeeded.
March 4, 2021
Diagnosing the Weakness That Has Enabled European Anti-Semitism
Manfred Gerstenfeld, in memoriam.
Last Thursday, Manfred Gerstenfeld, a leading scholar of anti-Semitism in contemporary Europe, died at the age of eighty-four. When what became known as the “new anti-Semitism” emerged two decades ago, notes Ben Cohen, Gerstenfeld was among the first to realize that it was merely the old hatred in a new guise. Cohen describes Gerstenfeld’s prescience in enumerating three mistakes made by Western Europe that would come back to haunt both the continent and its Jews:
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Diagnosing the Weakness That Has Enabled European Anti-Semitism
Manfred Gerstenfeld, in memoriam.
Israel’s Landmark Conversion Ruling Won’t Do Much for Actual Converts
A political football.
Richard Wagner’s Jewish Problem—and Everybody Else’s
Wagnerism.
Are Two of the Most Promising Recent Hebrew Novels Just Too Darn Long?
A defense.