To Today’s Cosmopolitan and “Oikophobic” Left, Israel Can Never Be Acceptable
The chosen and the woke.
August 23, 2019
Remembering the 1929 Hebron Massacre, and a Tennessean Jew Who Was among the Dead
The letters of Aharon Dovid Shainberg.
Tomorrow marks the 90th anniversary of the murder of 67 Jews by an Arab mob in the city of Hebron. Many of its victims were students of the city’s famed yeshiva, which had been relocated there from Lithuania in 1924. Among them was Aharon Dovid Shainberg, a native of Memphis, Tennessee—one of several American Jews who came there to study. Akiva Males discovered Shainberg’s letters to his family, and has published some excerpts. Signed “Dave,” and addressed to “Dearest Dad,” “Dearest Mother,” or “Dear Folks,” they end on August 20, 1929—just four days before the massacre.
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What Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand about the Jews
Seeing past the hysteria.
Iran Blames Its Own Mischief-Making on the Jews
“A crossbreed of dogs and wolves that has pounced on the convoy of humanity.”
Remembering the 1929 Hebron Massacre, and a Tennessean Jew Who Was among the Dead
The letters of Aharon Dovid Shainberg.
God and Man in the Gulag
The (fictional) Jewish prisoner who brought about Solzhenitsyn’s conversion.