The UN Settlement Resolution Gives Palestinians Unrealistic Expectations
And raises troubling questions about President Obama’s motives.
December 27, 2016
In Today’s Russia, the Memory of Soviet Repression Is Threatened by Oblivion
A post-Soviet Jew searches for traces of his great-grandparents.
On February 6, 1938, the Soviet political police arrested a Moscow Jew named Solomon Levenson; he was tried, convicted, and shot—a detail his family would not learn until 2009. Levenson was one of hundreds of thousands of victims of Stalin’s Great Terror, which disproportionately targeted Jews even though historians still debate the role played by anti-Semitism in these events. Having traveled to Moscow in search of more information, Dovid Margolin—Levenson’s great-grandson—discovered that the memory of Stalinist crimes is rapidly being repressed:
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To Overcome Iran, the U.S. Can Learn from Reagan
And also foster Israel-Saudi cooperation.
In Today’s Russia, the Memory of Soviet Repression Is Threatened by Oblivion
A post-Soviet Jew searches for traces of his great-grandparents.
Does an Ancient Jewish Polemic Defame, or Legitimize, the Founder of Christianity?
Reading between the lines of Toldot Yeshu.
The Origins of the Talmudic Page Layout
The Bomberg press of Venice.