The Palestinian Authority’s President Is Eighty-Four Years Old and Has No Clear Successor. What Will Come after Him?
The deluge?
May 7, 2020
How One Man Dedicated His Life to Preserving the Music of the Holocaust
The bard of Sachsenhausen.
In the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Gentile prisoners were privileged in comparison with Jews, insofar as they were to be worked and starved to death more slowly, and were less likely to be shot or gassed. Among them was a Pole named Aleksander Kulisiewicz, who was arrested by the SS in 1940 for writing newspaper articles critical of the Nazis. Not long after his arrival at Sachsenhausen camp, Kulisiewicz befriended a Jewish inmate named Martin Rosenberg, who was the conductor of a clandestine choir. Makana Eyre writes
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By Claiming Ownership of a Jerusalem Courtyard, the Kremlin Has Scored a Soft-Power Victory
The Orthodox Church and the Israeli backpacker.
Lessons from Israel and the U.S. about the New Way of War
Politics and perceptions can count more than what happens on the battlefield.
To One Jewish Philosopher, the Coronavirus Epidemic Demonstrates Humanity’s Vulnerability—and Its Moral Potential
Some theological and political reflections.
How One Man Dedicated His Life to Preserving the Music of the Holocaust
The bard of Sachsenhausen.