To Face New and Old Threats to Its Security, Israel Can’t Rely on Air Power Alone
The IDF should stick to its traditions of fighting fast, powerful campaigns that lead to clear, unequivocal achievements.
January 5, 2022
Haredi Jewry Confronts Its Own “Me Too” Crisis
Sensitivity to victims cannot dictate everything a society does. But there’s no excuse for ignoring accusations of sexual assault.
In November of last year, Israeli journalists reported on multiple credible accusations that Chaim Walder—a popular ḥaredi therapist and author, whom Yehoshua Pfeffer describes as “something between J. K. Rowling and Mister Rogers”—had committed sexual assault. Subsequently, a rabbinic court convicted Walder of sexually abusing children and adults, some of whom were his patients, over the course of 25 years, and booksellers removed his works from their shelves. Walder committed suicide last week. His funeral brought hundreds of mourners to the streets, and influential rabbis and periodicals eulogized him.
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Haredi Jewry Confronts Its Own “Me Too” Crisis
Sensitivity to victims cannot dictate everything a society does. But there’s no excuse for ignoring accusations of sexual assault.
Jeremy Corbyn May Be Gone from Britain’s Labor Party, But Anti-Semitism Continues to Flourish
A historian reflects on King George III, the “canceling” of historical figures, and situation of Anglo-Jewry.
Many Countries Had Their Holocaust Collaborators. But Only Romania Had a Holocaust of Its Own
The Bogdanovka massacre.
The Jewish Artisans of Old Morocco
They included rabbis and sages.