Iran Is Training Iraqis to Shoot Missiles at Israel, and the U.S. Is Paying for It
Iraq’s version of Hizballah attacked a Saudi pipeline, but may soon have access to American F-16s.
July 8, 2019
For the Jews of Russia, World War I Brought Persecutions, Slaughter, and Poverty
The first great Jewish catastrophe of the 20th century.
The opening months of World War I brought unmitigated disaster to Russian Jewry as the tsar’s army, blaming them for its own failures, punished Jews with massacres and expulsions. Then, in the latter half of 1915, much of the Pale of Settlement—where Russian Jews were concentrated—fell under a German military occupation that, while rarely anti-Semitic, was both harsh and immiserating. The war’s end brought even bloodier slaughter as various armies competed for mastery in Eastern Europe. Taking the city of Vilna as his prime example, Andrew Koss discusses with Avi Woolf the Jewish experience during the war and its aftermath. (Audio, 70 minutes.)
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Will Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Continue to See Themselves as a People Apart?
They benefit from multiculturalism, but don’t necessarily accept its assumptions.
Contra Paul Berman, Bernie Sanders Won’t Be a Bulwark against anti-Semitism on the American Left
If Sanders can’t summon the political courage to fight anti-Semitism when it’s easy to do so, what are the chances he’ll do so if it becomes difficult?
For the Jews of Russia, World War I Brought Persecutions, Slaughter, and Poverty
The first great Jewish catastrophe of the 20th century.
The Two Halves of an Algerian Torah Scroll, United after 180 Years
One in France, the other in Kansas.