What an Israeli Peace Initiative Should Look Like
The Biden administration can be persuaded to reject Palestinian maximalism.
January 13, 2021
Elvis Presley: Philo-Semite and Jew
A new book threads together a web of connections.
While it is hardly a secret that the so-called “King of Rock-and-Roll” had a very close relationship with an Orthodox Jewish family as a teenager, and that Jews penned the majority of his songs, it is less well known that he was himself of Jewish ancestry. He was, in fact, Jewish by halakhic standards. In a new book, Roselle Kline Chartock provides documentation for this claim, which Seth Rogovoy sums up in his review:
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Bringing the Remnants of Ethiopian Jewry Home to Israel
Operation Rock of Israel.
A Lack of Appreciation for the Jewish Virtues of Civility and Rationality Has Sowed Political Chaos in America
An Orthodox rabbi on the recent disturbances, and his own community.
Uri Tzvi Greenberg’s Poetic Call to Arms
“Sicarii II.”
Elvis Presley: Philo-Semite and Jew
A new book threads together a web of connections.