As Vladimir Putin Sidles Up to the Mullahs, the Threat to the U.S. and Israel Grows
Russia just helped Iran launch a surveillance satellite.
August 12, 2022
Learning from the Success of the Recent Fighting in Gaza
Israel’s triumph rested in not giving in to terrorists’ demands—and also on luck.
Lasting only 66 hours, the Israeli military operation last weekend was, in Ron Ben-Yishai’s words, “an outright Israeli triumph in all aspects: military, political, and financial.” That this was so, Ben-Yishai explains, is made most clear not by the success of the Iron Dome in intercepting the rockets launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) or the IDF’s swiftness in eliminating the organization’s leadership, but in the terms of the ceasefire:
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Learning from the Success of the Recent Fighting in Gaza
Israel’s triumph rested in not giving in to terrorists’ demands—and also on luck.
To White Supremacists, Jews Are Responsible for All Ills
How racism and anti-Semitism work together in the minds of the Charlottesville marchers.
Titus and the Gnat
A talmudic legend of a wicked emperor’s demise, set to verse.
An Exhibit on the Jewish Delicatessen Seeks to Avoid Kitsch and Nostalgia
There were an estimated 3,000 Jewish delis in New York City in the 1930s; now there are just a few dozen.