Making Sense of the U.S. Plan to End the Gaza War
What is President Biden thinking? And what is Prime Minister Netanyahu doing?
June 4, 2024
Mexico’s First Jewish President Has Scant Ties to the Country’s Jews
But still attracts the ire of anti-Semites.
In the recent elections, Mexicans chose Claudia Sheinbaum as their next president—making her, as news outlets have noted, both the country’s first female head of state and its first Jewish one. Yet Sheinbaum has little connection to the country’s Jewish communities, and prefers to describe herself, when she mentions the subject at all, as having “Jewish origins” (of which she has said she is proud) rather than as being Jewish. Canaan Lidor observes that her detractors are far more eager to bring up the subject:
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Mexico’s First Jewish President Has Scant Ties to the Country’s Jews
But still attracts the ire of anti-Semites.
A New Short Story of Real Estate, Family Conflict, and Life in Israel
“The Empty Apartment.”
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Leo Strauss on the Theology of Political Rage
Rebelling against “a holy law; but of this they appeared to be wholly unconscious.”