Islamic Texts Provide Evidence That Belies Palestinian Propaganda about the Temple Mount
The Jews who first acquainted Muslim scholars with Jerusalem.
June 3, 2020
Maintaining the Mysterious Eternal Continuity of the Jewish People May Be the Best Revenge against the Nazis
Dwight Eisenhower and Meyer Birnbaum.
The anniversary, last month, of the Allied victory over the Nazis led Meir Soloveichik to consider the accounts of two U.S. servicemen present at the liberation of Ohrdruf, a satellite camp of Buchenwald: Dwight Eisenhower, the commander of the Anglo-American forces, and Meyer Birnbaum, a devout Jewish lieutenant from New York City. Eisenhower’s initial reaction was to bear witness—examining the camp, forcing local Germans to confront the evils that had gone on beneath their noses, and calling for prominent Americans to come see the evidence of the Holocaust. His second reaction was to appreciate the need for vengeance.
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A Liberal Arts College’s Disgraceful Treatment of a Pro-Israel Professor Has a Lesson to Teach the Academic World as a Whole
Salem on the Thames.
In Iraq, the U.S. Can Learn from Israel’s Approach to Confronting Iran
The campaign between the wars.
The Museum of the Bible Is Winning Over Its Biggest Critics
A look at the Washington Pentateuch.
Maintaining the Mysterious Eternal Continuity of the Jewish People May Be the Best Revenge against the Nazis
Dwight Eisenhower and Meyer Birnbaum.