Why U.S. Officials Keep Talking to the Press about Covert Israeli Operations in Iran
Someone in Washington is afraid of the mullahs.
July 1, 2022
How the Jewish Bible Shaped Abraham Lincoln, and Lincoln Shaped American Jewry
“I should like to visit Jerusalem sometime.”
According to his widow, Abraham Lincoln’s last words were “How I should like to visit Jerusalem sometime.” Although some historians contest her account, the leading scholar of American Jewish history, Jonathan Sarna, finds it entirely credible, as the sixteenth president was both a friend of the Jews and a devoted and careful reader of the Bible. Sarna, in conversation with Ari Lamm, discusses both aspects of Lincoln’s legacy. The conversation concludes with an anecdote about how a prominent U.S. rabbi was dubbed “the ayatollah of the Jews.”
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The Roots of American Christian Zionism Lie in Both Religious and Secular Reasoning
The one foreign-policy idea that united liberals, conservatives, internationalists, and isolationists.
Anti-Semitic Artwork Raises Eyebrows, but Not Hard Questions, in Germany
One of the soldiers depicted as a pig is wearing a helmet labeled “Mossad” and a scarf with a Star of David.
A Celebrated French Writer’s Attack on Conventional Language, Conventional Morality, and Jews
Unhappy is the nation that can still make a great man out of Céline.
How the Jewish Bible Shaped Abraham Lincoln, and Lincoln Shaped American Jewry
“I should like to visit Jerusalem sometime.”