Why Iraqis Reject the Palestinian Cause
When they think of Islam, they think of Baghdad, not Jerusalem.
September 30, 2021
Remembering Hannah Senesh, the Poet-Paratrooper Who Died for Her People
The soul of man is the candle of God.
Born in Hungary a century ago, Hannah Senesh came to the Land of Israel in 1939, where she joined a kibbutz and then the Haganah. She parachuted into Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia in 1944 so that she could sneak into her native country to rescue Jews, including her mother, from their looming fate. Just before crossing the border, she handed a handwritten poem to a comrade in arms, beginning with the famous words, “Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame.” Meir Soloveichik describes what became of Senesh, and her poem:
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The Activists Who Raise Havoc over the Cultural Appropriation of a Taco Ignore or Justify Anti-Semitic Violence
Everybody hates the Jews.
How the Syrian Government Kept Islamic State in Business
Not fighting terror, but supporting it.
Remembering Hannah Senesh, the Poet-Paratrooper Who Died for Her People
The soul of man is the candle of God.
Chaim Grade’s Tale of a Chained Woman Illuminates Pious Jews as Real People
The dramas of Vilna in the 1920s are not so far removed from the dramas an Orthodox rabbi’s wife sees playing out in the 2020s.