In the Wake of Defeat in Afghanistan, the U.S. Must Shore Up Its Credibility Elsewhere
A lesson from southeast Asia.
August 18, 2021
Poland Is Responsible for Its Rift with Israel
Warsaw needs friends as much as Jerusalem.
On Saturday, the Polish government passed a law that effectively prevents Holocaust survivors and their descendants from pressing claims to property confiscated by the Nazis or by the post-World War II Communist regime. Israel’s foreign minister, Yair Lapid, roundly condemned the legislation and recalled the chargé d’affaires from the Israeli embassy in Warsaw. Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in turn responded with an angry statement of his own. Ruthie Blum writes:
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Israel Needs Better Solutions to Sabbatical Dilemmas
A test of society’s religious and moral mettle—and of halakhic flexibility.
Poland Is Responsible for Its Rift with Israel
Warsaw needs friends as much as Jerusalem.
A Brief History of Byzantine Jewry
Before the Ottoman conquest and the arrival of the Sephardim.
The Two Jewish Women Who Helped Write the Songs of Broadway’s Golden Age
Dorothy Fields and Carolyn Leigh.