The New U.S. Peace Initiative Isn’t a Solution to the Israel-Palestinian Conflict—Nor Should It Be
The new plan and its predecessors.
February 12, 2020
How a Peerless Scholar of Victorian England Found Hope in Jewish History
Gertrude Himmelfarb wanted the Jewish people to be defined by the qualities that had enabled it to endure.
In an encomium to the intellectual legacy of the late Gertrude Himmelfarb, the distinguished historian of British manners and mores who died last month, Daniel Johnson takes her understanding of what she called the “de-moralization of society” as prophetic in its anticipation of the “hollowing-out of Western civilization.” Yet, Johnson writes, Himmelfarb “never succumbed to pessimism.”
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How a Peerless Scholar of Victorian England Found Hope in Jewish History
Gertrude Himmelfarb wanted the Jewish people to be defined by the qualities that had enabled it to endure.
Can Middle Eastern Christians Lead the Way in Combating Anti-Semitism?
An Iraqi-Canadian bishop reflects on the Abrahamic legacy.
The Untold Story of the Jewish State’s Founding Document
Declaring Israel’s independence.
A Sukkot Picnic with Natan Sharansky
Reflections on the anniversary of the celebrated refusenik’s release.